On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 22:33 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2008 21:36:49 Hans Witvliet wrote:
> > 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!!!
> 
> That does not follow. A DNS lookup isn't directly visible to the owner of the 
> URL. It also doesn't contain any data from your system
> 
> Did you verify with wireshark what happened other than the dns lookups?
> 
> Anders

Not yet, will inverstigate it more next week.

No information got leaked out,
As the dns-lookup failed, the tcp-connection could not be establised.

But it remains strange that for normal http,ftp traffic everything goes
straight to the proxy, but when an pdf is opened with acrobat out-bound
ip connection were tried to initiated.

Perhaps i should also try another pdf-viewer....

hw
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