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Do PDFs have the ability to phone home?
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Mar 15, 20263185 viewsConfidence Score0%
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That is, can they send any personally identifiable information to an external host (for example, the PDF author's server)? If so, is there a way to disable this in common PDF viewers (Adobe Reader, Mac OS X Preview) without resorting to using a firewall rule?
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They are certainly not supposed to be able to except perhaps to report result from a form submission, but there's a Javascript engine in recent Adobe PDF implementations that has been the source of security problems with Acrobat Reader and related sā¦
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