you need to be online to read it. Don’t like that and what goes with it at all!
PDF Tracking Tool: “The Age reports
on the development of a tool that creates PDFs which cannot be read if
the computer attempting to read it is not online, and which reports to
the publisher on how the document is distributed.(Thanks, Jagg!)
The company, Remote Approach,
said in a media release that its online service could track and and
manage Adobe Acrobat files (PDFs) through multiple channels.It said the service allowed users to easily tag their PDF documents
so that when distributed, the PDF automatically interacted with a
reporting system.‘This allows our clients to see whether their documents are being
read - not just downloaded - and if they are being forwarded and
distributed through channels like email and peer to peer,’ the release
said.Well-known US security consultant Richard Forno said the bit about
being able to control documents to this extent was worrying.‘The last bit underscores what I feel is a soon-to-be major risk in
the digital world - namely, that without access to the internet for
software authentication and licence verification (or now,
data-tracking) neither your major applications nor data will be usable,
even if they’re sitting on a PC under your direct control,’ he wrote in
a posting to his Infowarrior mailing list.‘This product, and plans to offer
software-as-a-subscription-service shows once again how vendors (and/or
user ignorance) are slowly relinquishing our ability to work and exist
in cyberspace independently of anyone (or anything) or without the
permission of a remote third party. I find that quite unsettling.’(Via Smart Mobs.)
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