On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:02, Philippe Landau wrote:
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
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. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org