51–60 of 85 posts
http://imgur.com/a/pbazB Contents of this PDF, page by page, in JPGs.
PNG would be more fitting for content like this.
Wait, the GCHQ has a GitHub profile where they share a Graph Database engine. Interesting.
I tried cloning the repo and it hangs at 67%, so I kinda got suspicious and killed git. Hmm, maybe it's just a large repo, but being from GCHQ one cannot help but feel suspicious.
I really doubt this PDF is infected with anything like people are suggesting, but why is it on here at all? It seems incredibly empty and buzzword-y to me, interspersed with such charming insights as "It can make good sense to use external suppliers." Lots of talk about "disruption". It reads... well, it reads exactly like what it is, a vacuous corporate "whitepaper".
The only thing coming out of GCHQ that I want to read is all the stuff GCHQ won't let anyone read.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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://imgur.com/a/pbazB Contents of this PDF, page by page, in JPGs.
PNG would be more fitting for content like this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
PNG would be more fitting for content like this.
(In case folks don't know, PNG better for text because JPG's compression introduces "ringing" artifacts around sharp edges, such as the black/white transition of text.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts
Although that said, I sometimes use this to see who opened my files. I once left hundreds of these on a very popular cloud hosting provider (not naming names), and somebody working there was stupid to open the PDF on a machine connected to the internet, thereby proving abuse by employees and proving any random stranger can access 'your' files in the so called 'cloud'.
Look up 'honeydocs'. Some interesting articles about this technique