SELinux

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Thu Jan 20 15:52:37 UTC 2011


On 20/01/2011 03:58 πμ, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>  On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:51:03 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis
>  <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr> wrote:


< snip >

>  Personally, I'd recommend not using acrobat reader. PDFs are more
>  like executable programs than documents. So besides having to worry
>  about bugs in acrobat reader (of which there have been plenty with
>  security implications), you have to worry about valid PDFs doing
>  things to your system or with your pre-existing data that you don't
>  want.

Well the thing is that i wanted to read a manual in pdf format . You see
there are a lot of them hanging around . So what do i do ? Convert the
pdf to a more safe format ( by the way since u mention it , which is a
safer format ? ) or just use another program to open the pdf file ?





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