Adobe Locks Down PDFs, Releases Acrobat 7.0

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Adobe on Wednesday released software that lets enterprises assign digital rights to PDF files so that unauthorized users aren't allowed to open, print, or exchange sensitive documents.
LifeCycle Policy Server, which debuted in February 2004, at the Demo 2004 conference, lets organizations set rights policies to PDFs, including those distributed outside the enterprise.

The software determines who can view a PDF document, and whether that person can change, copy, print, or forward the document via e-mail. Permissions can be changed or even revoked at any time, and are implemented the next time the user tries to access the document, since the Policy Server is called on to provide authentication.

Policy Server, which sells for $50,000, runs on Windows, Red Hat Linux, IBM's AIX, and Sun Solaris. Support for Novell's SuSE Linux and HP-UX will be added in the first half of 2005.
Source: TechWeb

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    omg i could buy one policy server and use it to serve all of my clients, and make that money back in a few months..... :eek2:
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited January 2005
    Don't forget KingFish's cut of that dough.....
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited January 2005
    *cough* rort
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