Earlier quoted context omitted.
My question is, why?
It's a PDF from GCHQ. It's almost certainly loaded with a surveillance payload. Probably even some sort of of brainwave scanner.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's not a secret anymore why GCHQ/NSA need large graph databases.
When was it?
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#43Also known as "How GCHQ infected the internet with a PDF trojan" lol
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#44Maybe a [dupe] tag, as this was submitted a few days ago too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11674394
Does HN have tags now?
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#45Reminds me of the "Find Out if the NSA and GCHQ Spied on You"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705650
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.malwaretracker.com/pdfthreat.php http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/64052/can-a-pdf-...
Yeah, those are vulnerabilities in some PDF readers. Different deal.
That's a bit no-true-Scotsman? There's a history of PDF exploits that have made people wary. The exploits are delivered in the PDF, therefore some PDFs are 'unsafe'.
(As other comments have said, we shouldn't take "omg gchq are going to serve me an exploit PDF" too seriously, but there have been incidents of security services using PDF exploits to spear-phish people)
Edit: an example bank PDF exploit is mentioned in: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/05/13/2161789/how-to-steal-a...
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#49GCHQ have a puff piece planted in the FT today about their new twitter feed.
Anyone else going to roll over and forgive them for being the key component in Western citizen surveillance?
Even if they have got someone to draw some cute pictures of frogs whilst trawling all my email?
Not me.