On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 03:50 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 11 January 2008 03:12:46 Philippe Landau wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 11 January 2008 02:25:57 Don Raboud wrote:
Among the options one can set in Acrobat reader is to specify a proxy which I usually set to 127.0.0.1 to avoid things like this. (I am not paranoid, just don't like the very idea.) Of course, being closed source one has no idea if acrobat reader honors these settings or not.
Sure one has. Just use wireshark to see what it does. It can't bypass that. No need to sit around guessing, or tell scary stories
I have a hunch lots of people already have done that though, and if it did bad things, we would have heard about it by now, a lot louder than vague rumours on mailing lists
No need to insult if you follow the provided link there (see below) or do some online research on your own confirming what is now known since over two years.
By the way, I just discovered that since late 2005, Adobe actually disabled this feature (the feature in question was that acroread let javascript silently download URLs in the background without telling the user- that was how the notification worked)
Disabled it? You probably mean, they replaced it by other spy-ware. yesterday and today i was examining why my local dns-server was getting so much rediculous request. I have firefox in an sendbox, and al net traffic is supposed to be going to a proxy. I just had a local dns for handling local intranet-names. But much to my surprise, allmost each pdf opened within firefox result in two external name lookups: one for an internal adobe-site and another for a site related to the content or author of the related pdf. I took the precaution to disable recursion, but the verya latest reader from acrobat is still spying on you!!! hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org