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Adobe Spies On Users' eBook Libraries

Posted by Soulskill on from the digital-edition-is-the-worst-software dept.

New submitter stasike writes: Nate at the-digital-reader.com reports that Adobe is spying on any computer that runs Digital Editions 4, the newest version of Adobe's Epub app. They are collecting data about what users are reading, and they're also searching users' computers for e-book files and sending that information too. That includes books not indexed in DE4. All of the data is sent in clear text. This is just another example of DRM going south.

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  1. Time for some crapflooding. by AnotherBlackHat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Digital Editions, or any other program, is sending meta-data about the contents of hard drives, then they deserve to what they get.

    I picture a small program that creates millions of pseudo-random file names ending with .epub, .pdf, or whatever else D.E. is scanning for.
    I'd certainly be willing to dedicate a few gig to the task, I'm sure there are several thousand others who feel the same.