Well, THIS will do *wonders* for e-publishing!

The Register:

Adobe spies on reading habits over unencrypted web because your ‘privacy is important’

Adobe confirmed its Digital Editions software insecurely phones home your ebook reading history to Adobe – to thwart piracy.

And the company insisted the secret snooping is covered in its terms and conditions.

Version 4 of the application makes a note of every page read, and when, in the digital tomes it accesses, and then sends that data over the internet unencrypted to Adobe...

...because some spook monitoring my reading is exactly what I want in an ebook!

Read the Register story for a list of what’s transmitted.  TeleRead has a howto for seeing what’s transmitted about you.

And you may wish to add ‘‘adelogs.adobe.com’’ to your HOSTS file.


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