holy fuckballs, batman
Adobe is spying on user ebook data and sending it up to their servers in cleartext.
This is serious. They are sending users’ reading history data in clear text to their servers.
"Hoffelderreported that Adobe Digital Editions appeared to be gathering information on his entire ebook library, not just the titles viewed through Adobe Digital Editions. In a follow-up communication with Adobe, which included the file Hoffelder posted to support this suspicion,” Adobe denied it. But ADE 4 scanned his freaking ereader, listed all the files and reading info, and uploaded that data to their servers, including epub files he had created himself. THE DATA IS UPLOADED IN CLEAR TEXT. If you read or create epub fanfiction, this might be cause for concern, as data about your reading habits is being collated and transmitted without your knowledge and could easily be hijacked by anyone, not just Adobe.
If you have installed Adobe Digital Editions 4, I highly recommend you uninstall it immediately. h/t to mischief5 for the heads up.
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This is serious. They are sending users’ reading history data in clear text to their servers.
"Hoffelderreported that Adobe Digital Editions appeared to be gathering information on his entire ebook library, not just the titles viewed through Adobe Digital Editions. In a follow-up communication with Adobe, which included the file Hoffelder posted to support this suspicion,” Adobe denied it. But ADE 4 scanned his freaking ereader, listed all the files and reading info, and uploaded that data to their servers, including epub files he had created himself. THE DATA IS UPLOADED IN CLEAR TEXT. If you read or create epub fanfiction, this might be cause for concern, as data about your reading habits is being collated and transmitted without your knowledge and could easily be hijacked by anyone, not just Adobe.
If you have installed Adobe Digital Editions 4, I highly recommend you uninstall it immediately. h/t to mischief5 for the heads up.
[ X-posted to Dreamwidth with
comments | How to use OpenID ]