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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] SplashJackson 6 points 1 month ago
[–] ZC3rr0r 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This dude also got Doom to run in a PDF FYI. Pretty insane level of scripting support for a supposedly static document format.

[–] BCsven 3 points 1 month ago

Which is why I open unknown source PDFs in a VM :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This did not work on my iPhone. Instead there’s just an empty white box in the upper left-hand corner of the page.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That’s probably a good thing. Why on earth should a pdf file be able to do something like this? Just seems like another potential attack surface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which PDF reader were you using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s the built-in PDF reader as part of the browser. I’m not aware that it has any name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It would probably work in Adobe Reader. Surprisingly, it works in Firefox built-in PDF viewer, which has iffy compatibility with some more complex PDFs, but it might not work in the very different iOS build of this browser.

[–] Sunshine 2 points 1 month ago

That's impressive.