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Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (www.osnews.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1033182

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

Interesting, clever technical workaround for (potentially) real user benefit. But still, they should never do that. Working around safeguards and system component borders for user convenience is a very bad idea and practice.