Can you believe it? You create a PDF with potentially life-threatening information in it and you don’t wipe out the personal information? Maybe Adobe needs to add a warning flag about that somewhere? Or maybe it’s a government conspiracy with Adobe. <insert dramatic music here>
One of the more cringe-worthy stories to come out of the Wikileaks-Anonymous-DDOS plotline in the last few weeks is the lack of security practiced by just about everyone involved. Authorities found the name of a designer named Alex Tapanaris embedded in a PDF press release purporting to come from the hacker group Anonymous. His site was later inaccessible and he was said to have been arrested.
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