The increased threat is the adoption of subscription payments where previously different mechanisms were used to pay for this stuff. Now, much is online and therefore vulnerable.
It is the point you make that is the issue (and the answer to your own question). What happens when your license expires? When a person takes the default the option to have credit card details saved and reused at renewal time, then that opens the doors for the criminal element to "have a go". That is an increased threat. Why should we trust a corporation for whom we have no direct relationship, especially those who work within? A corporation that wants no relationship with us except to provide a product and dictates a payment method that provides the threat of harm? Yet, there is an expectation of trust when credit card and other details are provided. Adobe plays a patriarchal role in selectively ignoring pleas from its customers (dependants) and in return those dependants respond with increased offerings of trust and forgiveness when any kind of weakness on the part of the patriarch is displayed. Dependants are caused to question their own values and belief in the system when they ought to be questioning the system's values and making demands that services are provided so that trust is warranted. Alan On 5/10/2013, at 10:08 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > What increased threat? Trial, subscription, and purchase are identical > except for if and when the license expires. > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Alan T Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz > > wrote: > >> umm, is this a good time to bring up the new subscription licensing >> model >> and its inherent weaknesses (or should I say the increased threat >> of harm >> through attack and incompetent data management practices) ? -- Dr Alan Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, 1140 New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.nz