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. If you don't find good additional resources and don't speak German, why not ask for help ? A little less hostility amongst list members would be appreciated. You might be so much smarter and better, no need to diminish others.
Kind regards Philippe -- On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:02, Philippe Landau wrote:
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.
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