Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use?

henrypijames writes "For months, users of Adobe Creative Suite 3 have been wondering why some of the applications regularly connect to what looks like a private IP address but is actually a public domain address belonging to the web analytics company Omniture. Now allegations of user spying are getting louder, prompting Adobe Photoshop product manager John Nack to respond, though many remain unsatisfied with his explanation."

Comments

Re:Not about spying

[poopdeville]

I agree, I don't think any application should be using resources on my system without my explicit consent.

You gave it when you explicitly agreed to the EULA.

Re:How do I block it? [OT]

[causality]

So I write a brief post that says, in essence, that in the face of this and other security threats there is no single "magic" solution, but rather, that good security requires informing yourself and understanding the devices that you work with and it gets modded "Redundant". What a waste of a perfectly good mod point. If it bothers you so, I'll explain that the reason why "I am indifferent to any [grief] that is caused" is because I was not being malicious, cushioning someone else's ego is not my concern, and I was honestly saying how I felt about the matter.

If you don't like what I said, or the tone with which I said it, or the fact that I'll apologize for neither, abusing the moderation system to show your resentment is a poor substitute for actually expressing yourself and telling me why you feel that way. Had you done so, you may have caused me to rethink my previous point or to learn something new, or otherwise accomplished something better than subtracting one point from the post on the grounds of imaginary "redundancy". I wish this point were redundant! If it were, perhaps people would stop looking for band-aid solutions and become more informed about security.

Posted with no "karma bonus" since this isn't directly related to Adobe's software and whether it phones home.