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Adobe Still Ignores Elcomsoft-Discovered Holes

Posted by timothy on from the arrest-that-man-officer dept.

evenprime writes "In 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov described vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader while giving a talk at Defcon 9. As has been previously mentioned, Dmitry was arrested the day after this talk. He and his company Elcomsoft were charged with violating the DMCA. Now Elcomsoft have announced that Adobe, two years later, has still not patched these bugs."

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  1. Re:Microsoft does the same... and profits!! by jkrise · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    " And viruses don't "exploit bugs" at all. They simple append their code into a file (usually the beginning) or into a file (unused code, etc) and then "point" the program to run that code. "

    Great.. now can you explain why Unix systems in general are immune to virus infection as well as attacks?

    Let's leave aside all the neo-terrorists and success-haters hypotheses aside.

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  2. Re:Bwahaha! by sharkey · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    starting to stop

    That sounds an awful lot like Windows.

    "To turn off your PC, click the START button..."

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