Rambler wrote on December 15, 2020 at 5:10 PM

Reply to comment by boobs in When people say "PDF warning" when linking to a PDF document... what are they warning against? by PythonNewb

PDFs are the world's most dangerous file format: https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=54XYqsf4JEY

I was going to link to something similar. As someone who has a lot of PDF ebooks, let me ask a 'newb question' of my own: Is there a good way to convert them and their contents into a safer format for sharing?

boobs wrote on December 15, 2020 at 5:12 PM

a good introduction into why PDFs are insecure: they have their own javascript and actionscript api that can run code inside of a PDF. it's basically not exaggerating an executable document format.