Comments on: Lies, Lies and Adobe Spies

By: spyresearch

spyresearch — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:00:47 +0000

Sorry Felipe Budinich I didn’t intent to insinuate that you were all for that stuff, just some bad grammar on my part. (Or wording)
But while I am here within the tin hat community I’d like someone to tell me why people can’t see the tree’s for the forest when it comes to understanding that the more secure things become, the more hazardous they are when things go wrong. Such as a universal ID; once broken, stolen . bla bla bla, the easier it is for anyone to wreck havoc. It makes about as much since as storing your password inside a credit card. LOL

By: spyresearch

spyresearch — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:44:57 +0000

I don’t wear a tin hat (because I found out they don’t work LOL) hey maybe they are just supposed to reflect bad waves but in reality actually have every one that wears them on around the clock surveillance. Now that I got that out of the way why doesn’t someone tell me why people people such as Felipe Budinich just did, always use the excuse that if you are not doing something wrong then drop your pants and let everybody see in? When the reverse is true , that If we are not doing anything wrong then there is no need for you they or who-ever to spy on us! And anyone who see’s different must be either a spy or wan to be dictator or promoting such devices themselves. Now pin that to your tin hats (We know you wear one also.) talk about hypocrites!
P.S. try to get rid of all adobe files from an hp drive, even though you are not using it to boot from but as a storage device after that fatal board crash! . any takers on that side? Been there done that.

By: Saffire

Saffire — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:44:10 +0000

Well, good ol’ J.Nack answer.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/12/adobe_ate_me_ba.html

By: Felipe Budinich

Felipe Budinich — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:47:55 +0000

*don’t use pirated software and it shouldn’t bother you*

Don’t stash drugs inside you and the anal probing at the airport shouldn’t bother you.

Bandwidth has a cost, sure 2 Kb every 30 mins is not a lot… unless you are a 3rd world university, running 900 computers using PAID copies of that crapware, is adobe gonna pay for the bandwidth costs?

*Used any social networking site where they volunteered all sorts of information.*

I’ve got a Facebook account, and i’m releasing a lot of personal information. I’m not retarded, i’m doing it on purpose, VOLUNTEERED is the keyword. It is so arrongant from companies to believe that they don’t have to ask for our permission to do stuff like this.

*don’t use pirated software and it shouldn’t bother you*

Use open source software and it shouldn’t bother you.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:46:04 +0000

For those of you complaining about this… I sure hope you aren’t using any tracking or analytics code in your web sites or it would be very easy to call you a hypocrite because you are doing the same thing.

Like someone else said… don’t use pirated software and it shouldn’t bother you.

By: John

John — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:49:42 +0000

Go to their website and opt out of having your information gathered by Omniture. If the information is then still gathered, report the company to your local authorities. There are laws in many countries that are there to protect you, whether to protect your data or to ensure any advertising (virtually anything written or portrayed on a site) is accurate and not misleading. Use them, they work!!

By: Eddy

Eddy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:46:47 +0000

Dan, when you said:

But is this a flex based app? NOPE… Again… Not saying anything malicious, just something people should question.

,,,are you referring to Flexnet? Because if you are, CS3 is using it and it goes way beyond trying to dial out because Little Snitch won’t catch it. It uses a trusted port to dial out like Safari.

Are you familiar with Flexnet? And if you are, do you know how to block it or what port it communicates over so I can manually block that port? And also, does Flexnet communicate even if CS3 is not running?

Thanks
Eddy

By: Castiano

Castiano — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:04:23 +0000

Calls are made to the *.2O7.net subnet when Adobe software or a web browser fetches content from Adobe.com.
Because the Welcome Screen in your Adobe software is designed to fetch up-to-date content from the Adobe website and than display this content within the Welcome Screen, your software makes calls to this address at startup.
If you would prefer that the software not make these calls, simply disable the Welcome Screen in your Adobe software by selecting the Don’t Show This Again option in the lower left corner of the Welcome Screen. And stop complaining.

Adobe cares about you!!

By: Marc Klein

Marc Klein — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:17:57 +0000

I would like to make a comparison:

If I am buying a car of a major car manufacturer. Is it the interest of this company to know where, if and when I am driving with my new car?

The fact that I have bought a car from one company does not give this company the right to know how, if and when I am using my new car. Wouldn’t you agree?

graphically & sincerely,

Marc Klein

By: Marc Klein

Marc Klein — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:25:51 +0000

So please, give me a reasonable explanation why I needed to register my CS2 apps again when I returned to France after my trip to Germany?

I took my PowerBook with me for the holiday in order to finish some work. After my holiday, I wanted to start working again on my Apple G5 computer.

I come back to France, I switch on my G5 workstation, started Photoshop and blubbb, I needed to go through the entire registration process once again. I had to do the registration process twice which is strange enough.

Step 1. I did the software registration over the internet. Adobe said, thank you for registration.

You are now allowed to work with your purchased software from Adobe and are able to continue doing your homework.

Wow, thank you Adobe.

Step 2. I have closed the Adobe app after registering. I launched the Adobe app once again and I see the Adobe registration process popping up once again! (I have restarted my computer after finishing the registration process if I rember well.)

Step 3. I registered my Adobe CS2 suite AGAIN. And this time Adobe was so “intelligent” to remember my registration process.

Conclusion. It is NOT Adobe’s business to know WHEN, I am working on my machine, IF I am working on my machine, IF I am working on my PowerBook or my G5 workstation and for sure it is NOT Adobe’s business to know from WHERE I am actually doing my job.

The other question would be.

Why DO I have to register Adobe software over the internet anyway if I have purchased the software through Adobe’s online store by downloading the files from ADOBE’s website and getting the serial number directly from Adobe?

I make a comparison. I am selling design templates on my website. I am the company providing these products.

However, is it MY business to know WHEN, IF and HOW my customers are editing my design templates?

Answer: NO

It is definitely NOT my business to spy on MY customers. Why should I?

So why should Adobe?

graphically & sincerely,

Marc Klein