Liberty's Blog

Saturday, January 10, 2004

Adobe inserts goverment Big Brother code in its newest Photoshop release. Adobe, the world's leading vendor for graphics software, said the secretive technology "would have minimal impact on honest customers." It generates a warning message when someone tries to make digital copies of some currencies.

No one knows what other restrictions are included in the secret code. Users are upset that the software company has become an agent of goverment agencys.Adobe revealed it added the technology after a customer complained in an online support forum about mysterious behavior by the new $649 "Photoshop CS" software when opening an image of a U.S. $20 bill. It was not untill they were confronted in the users group that the inclusion of the secret code was included in the software.

The code is reported toslow down the program, and is a part of the reason why its become such bloatware. One would expect that when someone spends so much money for premium software that the customer is paying for code, that written for the consumer and not the goverment. One also has to wonder if goverment mandated code is being inserted into privacy software such as PGP. Big Brother is watching. ... Be careful out there!