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transmit the data unencrypted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How any company thinks that is acceptable in any way in this day and age is frankly beyond me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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OCIO Accessibility Analyst<br>
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017 Enarson Classrooms Building, 2009 Millikin Rd, Columbus, OH 43210<br>
(614) 292-8571 Office<br>
<a href="mailto:bossley.5@osu.edu"><span style="background:white">bossley.5@osu.edu</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> athen-list [<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu">mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Comden<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 07, 2014 2:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Fwd: Adobe tracks your e-book reading habits--and sends logs in plain text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those of you using Digital Editions, either personally or providing to your students, you may want to know about the giant privacy hole inherent in using this Adobe product. Thanks to Lauren Weinstein for the forward.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b>PRIVACY Forum mailing list</b> <<a href="mailto:privacy@vortex.com">privacy@vortex.com</a>><br>
Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM<br>
Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Adobe tracks your e-book reading habits--and sends logs in plain text<br>
To: <a href="mailto:privacy-list@vortex.com">privacy-list@vortex.com</a><br>
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Adobe tracks your e-book reading habits--and sends logs in plain text<br>
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(Ars): <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/" target="_blank">
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/</a><br>
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"Adobe's Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader--an application used by<br>
thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending<br>
libraries--actively logs and reports every document readers add to<br>
their local "library" along with what users do with those files. Even<br>
worse, the logs are transmitted over the Internet in the clear,<br>
allowing anyone who can monitor network traffic (such as the National<br>
Security Agency, Internet service providers and cable companies, or<br>
others sharing a public Wi-Fi network) to follow along over readers'<br>
shoulders. Ars has independently verified the logging of e-reader<br>
activity with the use of a packet capture tool. The exposure of data<br>
was first discovered by Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader, who<br>
reported the issue to Adobe but received no reply. Ars has also<br>
reached out to Adobe for comment with no response."<br>
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--Lauren--<br>
Lauren Weinstein (<a href="mailto:lauren@vortex.com">lauren@vortex.com</a>): <a href="http://www.vortex.com/lauren" target="_blank">
http://www.vortex.com/lauren</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-*- Dan Comden
</span><a href="mailto:danc@washington.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">danc@uw.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Access Technology Center
</span><a href="http://www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> University of Washington UW Information Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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