Re: Flash Player

In comp.os.linux.misc Robert M. Riches Jr. <spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 2006-04-24, Harold Stevens <wookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In <slrne4qbsp.mo9.rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Robert M. Riches Jr.:

[ acroread phones home ...]

http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/

For that reason, if I must use acroread, I've added this to /etc/hosts:

# Disable Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7 spyware
# See http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/
# After doing a little research, we found that Adobe's Reader was
# connecting to http://www.remoteapproach.com/remoteapproach/logging.asp
# each time we opened the document.
# Adding the following to your /etc/hosts should also help:
127.0.0.1 www.remoteapproach.com
127.0.0.1 remoteapproach.com

It *REALLY* ticks me off to have these thieves pawing over my property.

Yikes!

That /etc/hosts idea sounds good.

It also sounds like a good reason to be glad xpdf works for
many or most purposes.

Interesting, though it seems according to the above lwn article
you are not affected if you have java script disabled in acroread
(7.x).

Use it lots, mainly because documents just look better out of the
box, searching has been improved in this version and you can
fill* out pdf forms.

*might require to temporary enable Java Script.

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