John Nack updates Adobe 2O7.net controversy

January 09th, 2008 | Category: Apple / Mac

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Adobe Photoshop product manager & corp-blogger John Nack has posted a followup on the issue of Adobe applications that ‘phone home’ to a quirky domain name; the official Adobe technote is here. In case you missed it, the commotion arose out of an Uneasy Silence post on 12/26. Dan initially thought that Little Snitch was catching CS3’s welcome screen in

the act of pinging to his local network, but soon after a bit of due diligence showed that ‘192.168.112.2O7.net’ was not, in fact, an IP address but rather a domain name owned by Omniture and used for usage tracking (including by the iTunes ministore). Suspicions about the 2O7.net domain go back quite a while, so it’s no surprise that frustrated users would Orginal post by Michael Rose

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