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Acrobat is soon to be national security risk.

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December 13, 2022
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Ending support for 32-bit is a National security risk. Adobe SMH

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Correct answer gener7

This must be the reference: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/end-of-support-acrobat-reader-32-bit-os.html

I'm using MacOS which dropped support for all 32 bit apps in 2019 begining with MacOS 10.15

Adobe Acrobat is dropping security and product updates for 32 bit, but they drop update support for all of their software products, 32 and 64, more than two versions behind.

gener7

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This must be the reference: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/end-of-support-acrobat-reader-32-bit-os.html

I'm using MacOS which dropped support for all 32 bit apps in 2019 begining with MacOS 10.15

Adobe Acrobat is dropping security and product updates for 32 bit, but they drop update support for all of their software products, 32 and 64, more than two versions behind.

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That's very interesting. Where can we find out more about this?

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

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What, in your opinion, makes 64 bit more insecure than 32 bit?

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ElizabethOOOGAuthor

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The statement was about Adobe helping with incompetence by discontinuing support 32-bit pdf. It’s very disconcerting that a major software company (Adobe) can just discontinue support for billions of relevant legal documents. Adobe routinely has done this for decades. PDF, the portable document format. Adobe made a substantial standard and is now abandoning that format. That’s wrong. People that read PDFs don’t know how to make them or troubleshoot PDFs. Whenever leadership is abandoned a more insidious leader arises. Happens every time. Cause and effect.

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JR Boulay

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What is your question?

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

ElizabethOOOGAuthor

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It's a statement. Not a question. I mean what I write, not what other's think.

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Bernd Alheit

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Why does you assume this?

ElizabethOOOGAuthor

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Common sense, 35 years of watching government leak, fail, outsource, fall behind, and too divisive to recognize the change. Government will be forced into adopting (what? which country?) software in a rush. Government is in a state of attrition. It doesn't take much to fail.

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Legend

Well, I never thought of that. I'm sure you know best, but since I live in a different country to you, it doesn't bother me very much.

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