Commenting on yesterdays story about Adobe Apps linking to a web analitics firm, Adobe’s John Knack has a lengthy comment on his blog…
“Every year around this time, the online community latches onto some story (CS3 icons last year; “Microsoft to buy Macromedia” before that; etc.) and goes nuts with speculation. The specualtion is all the more thrilling given that the affected companies are only lightly staffed right now, making it hard to provide a meaningful response.”
I don’t think that’s a very fair representation of the story. There are very legitimate concerns here and putting it down to random internet malice is not really very fair. I don’t think people deliberately waited till the Holiday season to break this story, it just happened to be discovered around this time. Such an attempt to shift the blame is a pretty lame attempt at avoiding the issue.
He goes on to explain a few situations why the external connections are made but fails to grasp that it is the underhanded way in which it is done that caused the reaction in the first place. He later writes another post where he acknowledges the fact that the network address that the software calls hiding as a local address may be a call for concern, but to be honest, a simple “listen, we’re not doing anything untoward here” mea culpa would have been far more appropriate rather than pooh poohing everyone’s legitimate concerns and those that wrote them because everyone should just…
“give Adobe the benefit of the doubt.”
Yes, because big corporations never do anything wrong what so ever.
(UPDATE) Fixed some brutal spelling mistakes on my part !
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