On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 03:50 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008 03:12:46 Philippe Landau wrote: > > 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. > > By the way, I just discovered that since late 2005, Adobe actually disabled > this feature (the feature in question was that acroread let javascript > silently download URLs in the background without telling the user- that was > how the notification worked) >
Disabled it? You probably mean, they replaced it by other spy-ware. yesterday and today i was examining why my local dns-server was getting so much rediculous request. I have firefox in an sendbox, and al net traffic is supposed to be going to a proxy. I just had a local dns for handling local intranet-names. But much to my surprise, allmost each pdf opened within firefox result in two external name lookups: one for an internal adobe-site and another for a site related to the content or author of the related pdf. I took the precaution to disable recursion, but the verya latest reader from acrobat is still spying on you!!! hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
