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Download it, block all ports, run pdf reader in a chroot...B)

• leni536 11y ago
  And on a separate X server. It's more like trusting your reader than the PDF file itself.
  • casualhner 11y ago
    >destroy computer after reading.
    • ptaipale 11y ago
      Perfectly common, of course. Usually the way to do this is to use a virtual machine which you then throw away.
      • beagle3 11y ago
        but why do you trust your hypervisor? QEMU had a floppy controller escape bug published last month. Xen has one today.
        • deleted 11y ago
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        • JupiterMoon 11y ago
          By doing this the chain of things that have to be broken for an exploit to escape is getting longer.
          • leni536 11y ago
            So the best thing you can do is to nest different kind of VM hypervisors with different OS guests and read the pdf in the innermost machine.
          • reimertz 11y ago
            https://i.imgflip.com/oqlr6.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/oqlr6.jpg
• JupiterMoon 11y ago
  Or just read it on someone else's computer?
  • fallat 11y ago
    There's a name for that. The Stallman Co-Computer.