Academic Journal Claims it Fingerprints PDFs for ‘Ransomware,’ Not Surveillance | Vice
Items tagged with oa.elsevier in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) 2022-01-31
Summary:
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Elsevier embeds a unique code in every academic journal article users download. Security researchers fear this could be used to identify people who share PDFs.
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