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Comment: "Another" PDF Vulnerability (Score 0) 77

by Neuroelectronic (#38881599) Attached to: Ongoing Attacks Target Defense, Aerospace Industries

Why do corporations use Adobe PDFs anymore? There has been a long and colorful history of PDF files being the first vector of attack. I'm not even sure it's not intentional. Why does your reader need to be 50mb and support every type of datatype and scripting language under the sun? Why can't these "extras" be part of a different product and not pushed to everyone's desktop in the world? There isn't even anything that PDF's offer anymore that would make them necessary or implacable.

Administrators should simply blacklist Adobe Reader and get a corporate license of FoxIt, if PDF is even a common format, internally.

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