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The web serves files. Some of them are HTML, some of them are not. I don't have a problem with web browsers displaying anything that has a standard defining i
by AndrewDucker 16y ago
The web serves files. Some of them are HTML, some of them are not. I don't have a problem with web browsers displaying anything that has a standard defining it.
- iuguy 16y agoBut is it the browser's job to internally render the files, or pass them on to the appropriate player? As smart as the Google guys are, PDF is a mess of a format. Why should we think that Google are better than anyone else at implementing one safely?
- ximeng 16y agoOf possible interest to people wondering about security of PDFs is that the current Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge requires analysis of a malicious PDF. Not a direct link with Google, although it looks like the project itself is fairly active with Google Summer of Code. Edit: link for interested parties http://project.honeynet.org/node/583 http://project.honeynet.org/node/583