Bob Young

fifonetworks@infosec.exchange

Sole proprietor, FIFO Networks
Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom - VoIP
Most of my money comes from contract work for public utilities around the country, but I also provide remote tech support to small business and SOHO clients, mainly (but not exclusively) in the USA.

I do a fair amount of custom work for people when a loved one dies: unlocking computers, data recovery, and account recovery (Advice: keep paying their cell phone bill until you've got all their data back).

Also, personal cybersecurity for journalists, TV reporters, politicians down to the City Council level, and political candidates. TV stations: contact me for contract pricing for your entire news team.

Use fifonetworks.com/contact-us/ for questions or to schedule service. It's just me. You'll be communicating directly with me.

Licensed and Insured.

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Bob Young

5 months ago • •

Bob Young
5 months ago • •

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONet

Screenshot of Adobe settings under “All Tools” and “AI Assistant.”

in reply to Bob Young

Albert Cardona

in reply to Bob Young • 5 months ago • •

Given such practices from Adobe, there's no expectation that they'll respect the setting, or come up with a new way to undermine the user's choice in the future. The only sensible path forward is to stop using Adobe products altogether. There are plenty of alternatives.

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El Duvelle

in reply to Albert Cardona • 5 months ago • •

...what's a good Adobe alternative for reading and signing PDFs? 🥹

Edit: on windows

This entry was edited (5 months ago)

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Albert Cardona

in reply to El Duvelle • 5 months ago • •

xournal, okular, and LibreOffice writer all can sign documents digitally. Okular perhaps the easiest for PDF files, followed by Xournal.

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