Thread: Adobe DE 4 spies on users
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Old 10-09-2014, 09:55 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by soondai View Post
Well Nate certainly got some attention. It would be nice to see (outside of his comment section) a follow up describing efforts to reproduce the phenomenon of data being sent on books stored outside ADE.

As fjtorres suggests, maybe it happens on "production systems" instead of clean installs, but maybe Nate just doesn't remember accidentally opening the books with ADE at some point long ago, presumably by accident (I know I have done this)
Could be.
But consider that the thing doesn't just send the data for the book being read (as Amazon and others do) but for every book ever read, every time. And if it was solely for sync and activation, why mention piracy at all?

Over at TechDirt they've been parsing the Adobe party line and not getting the warm and fuzzies:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...r-ebooks.shtml

They are fairly certain they are violating several state laws, including California's, just with what they admit.
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