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November 7th, 2008

‘Rigged PDFs exploiting just patched Adobe Reader flaw’

By David Rothman

adobe Ryan Naraine’s blog on ZDNet has the details. Could the Adobe Reader’s security problems be one more argument for ePub without any DRM—so you can easily change readers (lower case)? Hey, if Adobe gets its security act right, then people might switch to it. Let the market, not content-software links, settle these matters.

Related: Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8: Security updates.

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