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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Security risks in PDF documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Jan 2 12:13:39 2011
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 08:53:28 -0800
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Security risks in PDF documents
http://bit.ly/e8y2je (Google Buzz)
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http://bit.ly/gUuFCU (The H Security)
Depending on implementation details, this may be an argument for
viewing PDF documents in inherently more "sandboxed" environments
like Google Chrome (which has a basic internal PDF viewer) rather
than using full-blown Adobe readers (when possible and practical,
given current feature requirements in any given case).
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
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