Post #1019983
2026-04-08 23:02 UTC
Replies (17)
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@decryption@aus.social 2026-04-08 23:07
@marcedwards so gross from adobe :(
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@iccir@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 23:41
@marcedwards I haven't experienced this yet, but I also kill any Adobe daemons when Photoshop/Illustrator/etc aren't running. I wonder if that makes the difference.
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@linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io 2026-04-09 00:51
@marcedwards How is it being modified when /etc/hosts is owned by root? An after-install script run by the package manager?
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@malwareminigun@infosec.exchange 2026-04-09 01:07
@marcedwards This explains why I had to constantly terminate all those bits.
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2026-04-09 01:07
@marcedwards kinda hate that my first thought was "damn that's clever"
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@moelassus@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 01:33
@marcedwards I monitor my hosts file so good luck Adobe. Disclaimer: I hate Adobe
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@mrfoostang@foostang.xyz 2026-04-09 01:35
@marcedwards@mastodon.social @relay@relay.infosec.exchange What. The. Fuck.
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@jeffcgd@aus.social 2026-04-09 03:54
@marcedwards @daringfireball The great irony is that one of the previous ways to Crack Adobe’s Creative Suite Apps was to edit your hosts file so their registration call-home were routed to local host.
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@sandycorzeta@misskey.id 2026-04-09 05:16
@marcedwards@mastodon.social this probably to combat those keygen patcher 😂
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de 2026-04-09 15:17
@marcedwards That is absolutely terrible!
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@trashpanda@m.alittlenook.net 2026-04-09 21:08
@marcedwards If I am following, the way they've done this also leaves the door open for any arbitrary website to determine if you have Adobe Creative Cloud installed. That could be used as an additional datapoint for fingerprinting purposes. Not that there aren't plenty enough data points already.
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-04-09 21:40
@marcedwards nslookup can't find detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com and 222.29.117.166.in-addr.arpa name = a2b59aaaf70266dcf.awsglobalaccelerator.com Very strange that Adobe would use such a weak tecnique as a form of license enforcement. I assume they spread more ofthese golden eggs in many places to force you to install the software on a new machine instead of copying the obvious adobe directories.
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town 2026-04-10 05:37
@marcedwards IPv4 only, why’m I not surprised?
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-10 06:03
@marcedwards adorable. what, is their domain admin on vacation? they're going to be very unhappy when their servers have to change IP.
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@nico@lepoulsdumonde.com 2026-04-10 15:14
@marcedwards it could directly use the ip address instead of writing it in hosts with a host name. I don’t get their logic
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@DVDSchneider@infosec.exchange 2026-04-10 15:27
@marcedwards when they inevitably migrate to a new IP address, Adobe has to update a hosts file on every client's computer with root/system permissions instead of updating their DNS record. Amazing work, no notes.
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@winkwinkerson@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 19:06
@marcedwards It's crazy Apple makes me give apps permission to access my Documents folder but they can just modify the hosts file during install no problem