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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-05-11 at 17:17 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
By the way, it isn't that the "creator can know you are reading it", it is that internet resources can be embedded in a file, causing acroread to try to download them. It can be used for tracking, but it's not the primary purpose
It's not that. It is that the pdf file can contain scripted code that runs when the file is opened. And one of the things it can do is send something "home". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJ0cXtTMYHG2NR9URAoczAJ4iFfxz7yXeiWJsgYfq+fXzTCGolQCfQ1ki cd6CLCeOWGmt/vJwRiZHW+A= =+a4F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org