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		trotsky on Dec 11, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anonymous sends a press release, but the author do... 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 on Dec 11, 2010 | [–]

Google Chrome sandboxes PDF.

Estragon on Dec 11, 2010 | [–]

I use xpdf for all PDF's, anyway. I only ever pull out reader for documents which clearly actually use its javascript features.

lallysingh on Dec 11, 2010 | [–]

Be careful, xpdf has a few known problems: http://freshmeat.net/articles/debian-new-xpdf-packages-fix-s...

Estragon on Dec 12, 2010 | | [–]

Thanks for the pointer.

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