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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."

5 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. Sklyarov not Skylarov! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    We know you can't spell, but at least the names should be correct.

  2. morons still ignoring Godless softwar gangsters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    lookout bullow. the hole payper liesense scammage is churning into coolapps.

    consult with/trust yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. that's the spirit.

    guffaw the shock&awe ?pr? execrable distributed buy the felonious georgewellian fuddites.

  3. Re:DMCA? More like GNAA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is slashdot... and you, sir, are a spammer...

    Fuck off!

  4. Re:relapse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's not the PDF format which is insecure, but rather their implementation of a feature available for it, which are plugins.
    This type of vulnerability doesn't matter if you're using a freeware pdf viewer, like, say, xpdf. :)

    - the unregistered slashdot hacker

  5. Re:This is the perfect example... by Jaysyn · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Make like a tree, and get the fuck outta here.

    Jaysyn

    --
    There is a war going on for your mind.