Re: [NTG-context] slightly-OT: Adobe records your every move!

2014-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/16/2014 8:04 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: E-book specialists, beware: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/ afaik not only adobe but also other devices do this ... (which is why i will never buy an ebook from one of

Re: [NTG-context] slightly-OT: Adobe records your every move!

2014-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/16/2014 8:04 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: E-book specialists, beware: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/ I think that in the end self-publishing will take over most of the market. Of course we will then have a

Re: [NTG-context] slightly-OT: Adobe records your every move!

2014-10-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Of course, Big Brother is watching us all. (and the NSA has long identified the present mailing list as carrying subversive information...) Yes, we (in Europe, perhaps elsewhere?) get to pay a tax for copying our own data on CDs/DVDs, just like most pay a tax to Bill when buying hardware, even if

[NTG-context] slightly-OT: Adobe records your every move!

2014-10-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
E-book specialists, beware: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/ Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an