Yesterday, we mentioned the reports kicked off by Nate Hoffelder‘s research that Adobe was spying on your ebook reading efforts and (even worse) sending the details as unencrypted plaintext. Adobe took its sweet time, but finally responded late last night (obnoxiously, Adobe refused to respond directly to Hoffelder at all, despite the fact that he broke the story). Here‘s Adobe‘s mealy-mouthed response that was clearly worked over by a (poorly trained) crisis PR team: