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Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
Yahoo! via Reuters ^
| 9/27/2008
| Daisuke Wakabayashi
Posted on 09/27/2008 7:41:59 AM PDT by shove_it
A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com Inc's video streaming service.
The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience.
"It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly," said Bruce Schneier, a security expert who is also the chief security technology officer at British Telecom.
The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Technical
KEYWORDS: dmca; intellectualproperty; ip; security; trojans
Now I understand why my Adobe player aint wurkin.
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posted on
09/27/2008 7:41:59 AM PDT
by
shove_it
To: ShadowAce
2
posted on
09/27/2008 7:46:11 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
To: KoRn
So, how do I download Ironman free?
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posted on
09/27/2008 7:48:49 AM PDT
by
KriegerGeist
(I guess I'm now a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
To: Geist Krieger
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posted on
09/27/2008 7:49:38 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
To: KoRn
It is not free, a little of a person's self respect
goes when you commit theft of even two bits.
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posted on
09/27/2008 8:03:19 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Obama and ITS thugs are made paranoid by Sarahnoia. (stole from molly_jack2007))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
That's not what the liberals tell us. If we can get something for free, like health care, we should take full advantage of it. >>sarcasm<<
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posted on
09/27/2008 8:15:53 AM PDT
by
antiunion person
(Obama, the end of our country as we know it)
To: ShadowAce
Here’s something for your ping list.
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posted on
09/27/2008 8:21:49 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
To: Geist Krieger
So, how do I download Ironman free? Read the linked article on Yahoo for starters. All the steps are there.
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posted on
09/27/2008 8:26:52 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.)
To: Geist Krieger
Ironman is released on Tuesday. If the Adobe hole is not filled by then, you can get it for FREE.
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posted on
09/27/2008 9:11:25 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: Geist Krieger
thepiratebay.com and a torrent program.
To: shove_it; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
09/27/2008 11:37:47 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: shove_it
That’s a feature, not a hole. :)
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posted on
09/27/2008 11:38:52 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: shove_it; ShadowAce
AD'OHH!be
To: shove_it
Theft is theft. Azz, grass, or gas...no one rides for free!
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posted on
09/27/2008 2:41:20 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(I ain't your Daddy's Conservative, OK?)
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