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Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent 98

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @06:31PM from the plus-one-invitation dept.

"Not all is worth cheering about as Adobe turns 20," writes reader adeelarshad82, who excerpts from a story at PC Magazine's Security Watch: "Researcher Aviv Raff has found a problem in ADM (Adobe Download Manager) and the method through which it is delivered from adobe.com. The net effect of the problem is that a user can be tricked into downloading and installing software using ADM without actual consent. Tonight Adobe acknowledged the report and said they were working on the issue with Raff and NOS Microsystems, the company that wrote ADM."

Submission + - Turkey Censors YouTube

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FM Reader

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @05:28AM

FM Reader writes: "After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order."

Comment BDA : Been done already... (Score 1) 182

by philistein on Thursday October 25, 2001 @02:46PM (#2479046) Attached to: Holographic Sonar Cryptography

Euh, ahem, the oceans were wired for sound years ago already. Not joking. Really.

Hydrophones were dotted around to be able to track subs, think it was somewhat declassified a few years ago (gave some new insights in whale behaviour, migration paths etc. then).

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