Oh just great ... Not! After being touted as one of the safer formats to use (thus lots of government sites now use PDF), in one fell swoop you go ahead and shoot yourself on the foot and make yourself vulnerable.
Wonders never cease. Cheers, --Jamz > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [funsec] A Hacker Dream Come True: Adobe and Yahoo > Tests Ads InsidePDF Documen ts no-trend-disclaimer: > Y-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > eah. That's what I thought. > > Via Reuters. > > [snip] > > Software maker Adobe Systems Inc and Internet company Yahoo > Inc said on > Wednesday they will offer a service to let publishers run > advertisements in > Adobe's popular document-reading format. > > The new service, Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo, presents > publishers > with an alternative to conventional subscriptions, which, if widely > adopted, could open up a new model based on free, > ad-supported publishing, > analysts said. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2754715120071129 > > Screaming for compromise, methinks... > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFHTlAPq1pz9mNUZTMRAvr5AKCypH3Zj/tD15BYxVpW9DPSuZAPsQCglm+W > GhJOs4Pmdta52o/EaD2rm7s= > =22Vp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
