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GitHub will actually render a full preview on the website, no download required. https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The%20Linux%20kernel%20hidden%2
by jacobwg 10y ago
GitHub will actually render a full preview on the website, no download required.
https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The%20Linux%20kernel%20hidden%20inside%20windows%2010.pdf https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The%20Linux%2...
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoAh, that's quite pleasant. And it doesn't even appear to use the browser's PDF renderer or anything.
- walkingolof 10y agoGuys, how do you think Black Hat 2017 is going to be funded if you dont download and open the PDF ? ;)
- whoopdedo 10y agoIf they're not able to make it silently download and execute remotely without me interacting or being aware, I feel they're not doing their jobs as black hats.
- CamperBob2 10y agoThe people who know how to do that are pulling down the big bucks on the Windows 10 team at Microsoft.
- kuschku 10y agoWell, it uses Firefox' PDF renderer - they just copied the code into the page itself.
- uxp 10y ago"Copied" is a strange word. https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/getting_started/ https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/getting_started/
- kuschku 10y agoI try to use "copy" in an inflationary way, to remove the negative stigma associated with it. Our entire floss community is based on forking an existing project, improving, and sometimes merging again, and the entire history of innovation has been based on this copy-transform-combine cycle, too.
- jusssi 10y agoIt says "This file is too big to show. Sorry!" Edit: Nevermind, switch to desktop version and it works.
- cm3 10y agoGithub uses pdf.js for that, so it's not more or less secure than viewing it with Firefox's built-in viewer.
- makomk 10y agoThere have been serious security issues with the integration of pdf.js into Firefox in the past, so it may actually be more secure than Firefox's built-in PDF viewer.