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A group famous for an ongoing DDOS attack and previous hacking incidents sends me a pdf document. I: a) Open it -or- b) wtf are you crazy? I'm not saying t
by trotsky 16y ago
A group famous for an ongoing DDOS attack and previous hacking incidents sends me a pdf document.
I:
a) Open it
-or-
b) wtf are you crazy?
I'm not saying there was anything in it, but I sure hope people don't open things like that up with reader.
- Raphael 16y agoGoogle Chrome sandboxes PDF.
- Estragon 16y agoI use xpdf for all PDF's, anyway. I only ever pull out reader for documents which clearly actually use its javascript features.
- lallysingh 16y agoBe careful, xpdf has a few known problems: http://freshmeat.net/articles/debian-new-xpdf-packages-fix-several-vulnerabilities http://freshmeat.net/articles/debian-new-xpdf-packages-fix-s...
- Estragon 16y agoThanks for the pointer.