Hi Timo, That sounds very bad. If this is an official government body, I would complain to them, because this is surveillance.
Thank you for your detailed analysis. Best wishes, Matthias-Christian On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:12:32PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Theo Schmidt <[email protected]> writes: > > How about this one: > > http://www.skppsc.ch/1/downloads/de/Betrugspraevention_www.den-trick-kenne-ich.ch.pdf > > If you decompress that with > > pdftk Betrugspraevention_www.den-trick-kenne-ich.ch.pdf output a.pdf > uncompress > > you can see that it contains 246 small adobe flash programs: > > <</P<</TF(TEMPACCESS)>>/D 1491 0 R/N(Media clip for > dmPageTrigger24)/CT(application/x-shockwave-flash)/Type/MediaClip/S/MCD>> > > (Yes, file says "Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9" and > gnash plays them (shows only blue background)) > > If you decompile the programs you see they refer to vitrium.com which > says > > "Smart Document Technology software to control and track PDFs and > their content, while transforming PDFs into dynamic and interactive > documents. > > Track who is reading your PDFs and determine whether your content is > being accessed by unauthorized readers; control access to your PDFs > and deter information misuse; embed in-document forms to capture > information on who is reading your PDFs and qualify them as sales > leads." > > Google finds > > Peter Nieforth: I'm sure there are many ways to do it, but the > technology that we have developed is Flash based. We are actually > using a Flash application inside a PDF, and that Flash application is > collecting the information and reporting it back to the publisher, in > real-time. > > "As a result, we know where a document came from and where its gets > passed to." > > -- http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-peter-nieforth.shtml > > > > -Timo > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
