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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:Acrobat isn't so wonderful... by byolinux · · Score: 1, Troll

    Given that PDF is the standard in printing, and Mac OS X has PDF at the very core of it, why the desire to wean users off Macs?

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  2. Legal path by rwise2112 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess they're taking the completely legal path here. The bug was discovered illegially, and therefore cannot be used against them!

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  3. Re:Acrobat isn't so wonderful... by Matrix272 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't speak for the parent, but I'd guess it was the high cost of the proprietary, closed-architecture hardware, coupled with the lack of standards-based applications (up until OS X, which was too little, too late).

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