Fact: Malware-riddled PDF files have been the mainstay of spearphishing and increasingly mass malware attacks in the wild because Adobe simply canNOT get their shit together.
Fact: Firefox, at last, followed the lead of OSX to include their own PDF viewer into their browser, mitigating the effects of this ongoing security nightmare. Fact: I just had to post a college-wide email telling people how to disengage this eminently smart and useful security measure because the business of the University is conducted via poorly written PDF forms created by business managers and 'Joes Son-in-law who's the computer guru and has a pirated copy of Acrobat Pro to write forms with' or some ActiveX plug-in and is broken by folks using Firefox 19 and this smart new security measure. Sob. There are times when I regret not having run off and become a carnie…although that might not have been very successful because at the time I'm not sure I could have FOUND a carnival :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
