On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:47:20AM -0800, nick hatch wrote: > Our current mitigation strategy is begging our users to be safe. Ugh.
Why not encourage them to switch to open-source software? (As I've said elsewhere, "closed source" == "faith-based security".) It's not a panacea of course, but (a) open-source projects tend to respond much faster and (b) if they don't respond sufficiently quickly, user communities can and will develop their own fixes. Of course, I don't know whether any of the numerous open-source PDF handlers out there will meet your particular needs; but if they don't, then maybe the best approach is to discuss the situation with them and figure out how to make it happen -- in which case everyone wins. (I've found it, on occasion, *extremely* cost-effective to fund a little development on a particular feature or two. Amounts which wouldn't even buy a year of support for a single-user license turn out to buy a lot more when directed at low-budget projects.) ---Rsk _______________________________________________ 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.
