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they're hacking PDFs now

yeah and for the last few decades

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ecbd7c10-852f-4c42-bf27-0ac999bb2cad/they-re-hacking-pdfs-nowRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:46:12 GMTThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:36:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:36 GMT]]>@RogerBW oh no, it's so much more. postscript doesn't have this much power.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455773065095104https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455773065095104Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:53:44 GMT]]>@dysfun It is a mere shadow of the beautiful PostScript.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116455769647078074https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116455769647078074Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:53:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:53:30 GMT]]>@rachel @dysfun Of course not! By the time you get to running Adobe Acrobad as admin you're so far beyond regret you can't see it with a telescope.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455768742695157https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455768742695157Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:53:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:52:59 GMT]]>@rachel @dysfun It's been a while since I looked but I recall their being at least Flash, a custom language for barcode and QR code generation, and I think three separate versions of JavaScript (ignoring the whole "PFD is sort of stripped-down postscript" thing) so I'm sure you can find at least one of those that makes network calls.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455766751240148https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455766751240148Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:52:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:51:45 GMT]]>@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network you won't regret running adobe acrobat as admin

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgp1xygvhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgp1xygvThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:51:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:34 GMT]]>@deech@mastodon.social @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems we had a presenter I e time export a slide deck from keynote but had used apple fonts so they had to present slides with no text in them

And this org is awful about wordy slides

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgnjczgthttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgnjczgtThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:28 GMT]]>@rachel @wordshaper your difficulty is going to be making system calls for http traffic.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455756809221642https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455756809221642Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:50:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:49:29 GMT]]>@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems now I want to see if any of those interpreters can run a fedi instance......

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgm55jgrhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transitory.social/notes/alfgm55jgrThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:49:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:47:04 GMT]]>btw if you didn't know, PDF stands for Portable Dumpster Fire

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455743429977235https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116455743429977235Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:47:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:18 GMT]]>@dysfun There are only something like five different language interpreters built into Acrobad and the PDF standard, I'm sure it's secure.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455740444616632https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/116455740444616632Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:04 GMT]]>@dysfun I mean it is the Payload Delivery Format

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.xirion.net/users/0x76/statuses/116455739551646688https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.xirion.net/users/0x76/statuses/116455739551646688Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:42:50 GMT]]>@RogerBW Adobe liked to cultivate that misconception from early on. @dysfun

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116455726815661598https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/riley/statuses/116455726815661598Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:42:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to they're hacking PDFs now on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:39:59 GMT]]>@dysfun It's great, people think of a PDF as this binary block that you can't do anything with. Hoo boy.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116455715621687326https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116455715621687326Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:39:59 GMT