Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008 5:28 PM, Michael Skiba <michael@michael-skiba.de> wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 22:51:48 schrieb Philippe Landau:
evince is probably safer: Adobe applications are notorious for "phoning home", telling Adobe what you do when, and Adobe is a known bully of the copyright mafia. Additionally, Adobe software tells the authors of some pdf files when you open/read their documents. Have any sources for it?
I knew Adobe was calling home, but that a person can request a notification was new to me... (or do you just mean the possibility?)
PDF files can have internal macros to make this happen. I have heard of at least one company that has implemented the logic.
Had to rescue the page for the occasion, sorry for the currently unavailable links to helping.net. http://justwars.com/linux/Adobe-Acrobat-Spying-on-Users.html Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org