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This humourous essay [PDF] on modern computer security, I thought would be an interesting read for SN; here's an excerpt.
Security research is the continual process of discovering that your spaceship is a deathtrap. However, as John F. Kennedy once said, "SCREW IT WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON." I cannot live my life in fear because someone named PhreakusMaximus at DefConHat 2014 showed that you can induce peanut allergies at a distance using an SMS message and a lock of your victim's hair. If that's how it is, I accept it and move on. Thinking about security is like thinking about where to ride your motorcycle: the safe places are no fun, and the fun places are not safe. I shall ride wherever my spirit takes me, and I shall find my Gigantic Martian Insect Party, and I will, uh, probably be rent asunder by huge cryptozoological mandibles, but I will die like Thomas Jefferson: free, defiant, and without a security label.
[Also Covered By]: Schneier on Security
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:33PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:48PM
about:config > pdfjs.disabled=[boolean]true?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:49PM
What is wrong with a pdf? Any security flaws associated with it are the fault of document readers i.e. the same developers that unleashed the locust locus that is flash.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 30 2015, @07:15PM
There are a number of PDF readers, and writers as well. PDF isn't especially secure, nor is it especially insecure. Adobe reader, however, has proven to be terribly insecure.
$ pacman -Ss PDF
extra/cups-pdf 2.6.1-2 [installed]
PDF printer for cups
extra/evince 3.16.1-1 (gnome)
Document viewer (PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with
gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt))
extra/gv 3.7.4-2
A program to view PostScript and PDF documents
extra/poppler 0.33.0-1 [installed]
PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0
extra/poppler-data 0.4.7-1
Encoding data for the poppler PDF rendering library
extra/potrace 1.12-1
Utility for tracing a bitmap (input: PBM,PGM,PPM,BMP; output:
EPS,PS,PDF,SVG,DXF,PGM,Gimppath,XFig)
extra/pstoedit 3.70-2
Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats
extra/qpdf 5.1.3-1 [installed]
QPDF: A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System
extra/texlive-bin 2014.34260-8 [installed]
TeX Live binaries
extra/zsh-doc 5.0.8-1
Info, HTML and PDF format of the ZSH documentation
community/apvlv 0.1.5-1
PDF/DJVU/TXT viewer which behaves like Vim
community/dblatex 0.3.4-2 [installed]
DocBook (XML and SGML) to DVI, PDF, PostScript converter using latex.
community/epdfview 0.1.8-6 [installed]
Lightweight PDF document viewer
community/erlang-docs 18.0-1
HTML and PDF documentation for Erlang
community/gambas3-gb-pdf 3.7.1-2 (gambas3)
PDF component
community/impressive 0.11.0b-1
A fancy PDF presentation program (previously known as KeyJNote).
community/libharu 2.3.0-1
C library for generating PDF documents
community/mupdf 1.7_a-2
Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
community/pdf2djvu 0.8.1-1
Creates DjVu files from PDF files
community/pdf2svg 0.2.2-1
A pdf to svg converter
community/pdfgrep 1.3.2-1
A tool to search text in PDF files
community/pdflib-lite 7.0.5p3-3
PDF manipulation library.
community/pdfmod 0.9.1-6
Simple application for modifying PDF written in C Sharp
community/pdfsam 2.2.4-1
A free open source tool to split and merge pdf documents
community/podofo 0.9.3-1 [installed]
A C++ library to work with the PDF file format
community/python-pyx 0.14-1
Python library for the creation of PostScript and PDF files
community/python-reportlab 3.2.0-1
A proven industry-strength PDF generating solution
community/python2-pdfrw 0.1-3
Basic PDF file manipulation library
community/python2-pychart 1.39-8
Python library for creating Encapsulated Postscript, PDF, PNG, or SVG
charts.
community/python2-pyx 0.12.1-2
Python library for the creation of PostScript and PDF files
community/python2-reportlab 3.2.0-1
A proven industry-strength PDF generating solution
community/python2-rst2pdf 0.93-8
Create PDFs from simple text markup, no LaTeX required
community/wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.1-1
Command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats
community/x-docs-pdf 20140422-1
X documentation
community/zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.2.8-1
PDF support for Zathura (MuPDF backend)
community/zathura-pdf-poppler 0.2.5-2
Adds pdf support to zathura by using the poppler engine
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:58PM
Exactly what I thought. Oh the irony. I'm not downloading THAT!
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday August 31 2015, @04:09PM
A Microsoftie publishes a PDF that says not to worry about security? That's a good troll because a Word document would have been too obvious.
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