Re: Flash Player

Harold Stevens wrote:
In <slrne4qbsp.mo9.rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Robert M. Riches Jr.:

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I don't give out keys to my premises


IIRC Adode bought Macromedia and thus its Flash "technology" (which like you
I refuse to enable, on anything I control). For about a year now, Adobe also
has quietly distributed acroread "phone home" spyware:

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

I've totally disabled JavaScript in acroread...who knows where else beside remoteapproach.com PDFs may try to send data. That makes acroread complain every time you exit the program (including quitting a browser that has used the plug-in), but I can live with that if it prevents the "phone home" behaviour.
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