*Deep sigh* One part of me says "So what? It's no skin off my nose that certain publishers get to know which of their books I read" - and I could probably agree to a certain amount of commercial sense in the idea, if I thought about it for even a short while.
The other side of me gets really upset at this kind of thing. How *DARE* people like Adobe make this of information available to someone else without telling me? The books I read are entirely my own choice and no business of anyone else unless I make a positive effort to let the publisher know. It's exactly this kind of 'hidden loophole' stuff that makes the Web so scary to the uninitiated. John -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: 25 May 2005 14:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Impossible? convert PDF to Book/Manager format? Users of Acrobat 7.0: be aware that 7.0 has a "phone home" capability that allows outsiders to monitor your access to specially tagged PDFs. See: http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/ If you must use 7.0, you should take care to disable use of javascript, insert a bogus proxy setting, or otherwise firewall the program. (Acrobat 7.0 accesses a remote server at port 80, so your corporate firewall probably takes little notice.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
