[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 @ 11:44 -0500, der Mouse said:

> > For a current look at that: did you guys know that many PDF files
> > online cause your PDF viewer to phone home whenever you read the
> > document?
> 
> No, and I don't believe it, either.  

PDF added JavaScript with networking some time ago.

A lot of documents phone home now when you read them.

If you don't believe it, well... that's your choice.

> If they do, I have a bug to
> (report and) fix in GhostScript.

GhostScript has nothing to do with it.

If you fully comply with the PDF spec, you include the ability for a
document to phone home when it is read.

> ...replace it with something that behaves civilizedly. :-~
> 
> Contrary to what most PDF-providing sites would have you believe, Adobe
> software is not necessary to read PDFs.

True, but most people use their software so this is still a problem.

Yes, it is even a problem for those of us who avoid it, because what
others do affects us too.


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