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This Privacy Notice is for the Tablet Driver Software ("Tablet Driver") provided by Wacom Co., Ltd. Heaton argues that what if this could be used by Wacom employees to, say, discover that Valve software is working on "Half Life 3," by querying its data heap for executables that sound like "Half Life 3"? Find a fascinating technical run down of Heaton's discovery on his blog.
The company's EULA don't seek even implicit consent to collect this data, and it presents a big privacy challenge. It was then discovered that Wacom driver tracks every application its users open (and not just applications of interest to the company). He then set up an internal proxy using Burp Suite that convinced the Wacom driver that it is sending data over a secure connection, and intercepted its payload. The payload of data sent to the analytics website was encrypted by TLS. Heaton used Wireshark to first detect that his Wacom's driver is sending data packets to Google Analytics by monitoring its DNS lookups. Software engineer Robert Heaton discovered that the driver of Wacom tablets leak information on every application you open, to an entity that's using Google Analytics to collect the data. These are essentially input devices in which convert pen-like input on a surface to 2D graphics on the screen, which high precision. Now, providing you’ve done it correctly, you should find your Wacom’s pressure and tracking sensitivity fully restored! Bravo for discovering such a wonderful little time saver.Wacom is a brand graphics artists swear by, thanks to its near monopoly over the pen-digitizer tablet market. It surely beats having to restart the whole computer! IF NOT, simply close and reopen Photoshop, which will be nice and quick since it (and your work) will still be loaded into recent memory. You may have your pressure sensitivity fully restored! Wait for it to shut down, then start it back up again when the button becomes visible. Manually stop the Wacom driver by clicking the clearly marked button.
Double click the “Wacom Professional -” service and a window will pop up.
If for some reason, clicking this little “Restart” button makes matters WORSE, the failsafe approach is the manual restart. Now simply wait for the service to stop and start itself back up again! Scroll down the list and select “ Wacom Professional Tablet Service” from the list of services and click the little “ Restart” link in the column to the left. There will be an icon at the top of your list which appears to be two small gears withe the name “Services” - imagine that? Double click that and look what happens next:
Open your Start menu (or press the Windows Key) and simply type “ Services”. What a fun time this is.īut HOLD ON, I say! There’s another way, yet! Try this out first before pulling the plug: Now, you figure, it’s time to close photoshop, all your windows and programs, and do the dreaded system restart. Maybe it just needs to be reminded that it’s awake? You go to Control Panel, Wacom Properties Configu. Oh dear, you’ve seemed to have lost all pressure sensitivity and high resolution tracking! Well, you figure, let’s go check the driver settings. Come back the next day, wake up your computer to do some work on that image you’ve had open and…. So, you put your Windows computer to sleep for the night.