Adobe's naughty Chrome telemetry code had XSS problem

Re: Adobe was insecure? GASP!

In other news water is wet, grass is green, air is good for your health...

In response: yes, often*, unless there is something in it that isn't, not in Japan, I assume you speak from vast knowledge concerning this and have consulted with many of our castoridine brethren on the subject, try liquid nitrogen, & neither am I.

I don't use Adobe products any more unless forced to at work, but I am contemplating setting up a VM and installing this just to see if I can send them a bunch of bogus info... No, it's better to leave sleeping dogs lie.

*See other commentard's note concerning Australia

Re: The fix

The fix is simply to say NO when Chrome asks if you want to enable this piece of malware.

Re: Why does every corp think it's OK to data rape?

... because there is practically zero material penalty for doing so. If a corporate shill faced a high probability of jail time I am fairly sure their product development would take a very different direction.

The worst that might happen here in Blighty is that you may get a stiffly worded letter from the ICO (if at all). If your crime is big enough I guess you may face a panel of techincally illiterate MPs who pitch softball questions and eventually land a fat contract at tax-payers expense to provide a functionally useless system that rapes the further erodes and the tax payers privacy.