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 #F

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

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OS-SCI

in reply to Bob Young • 5 months ago • •

I stopped using Adobe products many years ago. For Pdfs I use LibreOffice Draw and i am quite satisfied with it. May the Foss be with you.

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Oliver Schafeld

in reply to OS-SCI • 5 months ago • •

I don't need advanced PDF editing options so I'm quite happy with using Skim instead of Acrobat Reader.

skim-app.sourceforge.io

I switched from Adobe Creative Suite to Affinity (one-time purchase instead of monthly subscription). Occasional Photoshop users could even try this free web app: photopea.com

Photopea | Online Photo Editor

Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free!

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MrGrumpyMonkey

Unknown parent • 5 months ago • •

@_L1vY_ Welcome to team Tux. 🐧 Glad to have another M$ refugee join the dark side. Here's your cookie. 🍪

As a [very] long time M$ Windows user and IT Consultant, I managed to transition with the help of a lot of folks. Have any questions, I might be able to help. I'm just an average user, but that has allowed me to point newcomers in the right direction. The journey might be rough, but It'll be worth it in the long run.

@Mother Bones

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MrGrumpyMonkey

Unknown parent • 5 months ago • •

@_L1vY_ I've been using it as the primary OS for approximately 4 years. 4 Years prior to that, I was dual booting with Windows. I jumped through many distros, and ended up landing with Mint. Fast forward to today, and I'm using MX Linux on the main host and Garuda Linux on a Thinkpad laptop.

@Mother Bones

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MrGrumpyMonkey

Unknown parent • 5 months ago • •

@_L1vY_ I quite like the Cinnamon desktop environment of Mint. It's the most similar, in terms of UI, of most M$ Operating systems. It sounds like you're more technically savvy than most if you were able to install the Linux OS on your own terms. Feel proud of that. I run a Windows 7 VM for those pesky devices that only work on the M$ operating systems. I rarely fire it up, but it doesn't require an extra computer. Just food for thought. Anyway, have fun computing again.

@Mother Bones

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Karl Voit

in reply to Bob Young • 5 months ago • •

Well, what were you thinking how going into the #cloud means?

In particular after the #Adobe #Venezuela incident from 2019. 🤷

karl-voit.at/cloud/

You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud

^karl-voit.at

#Venezuela #cloud #adobe

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