You may have heard something in the news about PDF recently… By the power of Google!
- http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/27C3-Brandgefaehrliche-PDF-Dokumente-Update-1162122.html (The one that started it all)
- http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/27C3-danger-lurks-in-PDF-documents-Update-1162166.html (… auf Englisch)
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/0231242/Detailing-the-Security-Risks-In-PDF-Standard (Basically the Heise article)
- http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=5507 (Links to Heise, like Slashdot)
- http://m.io9.com/5731328/10-devious-new-ways-that-computer-hackers-can-control-your-machines-or-fix-them
- http://66.71.254.238/2011/01/10/c3.html (A blog)
- http://frutosdelcaos.blogspot.com/2010/12/idiosincrasias-de-pdf.html (Un blog en español)
- http://blog.scrt.ch/2011/01/07/27c3-we-come-in-peace/ (Un blog en français)
- http://trackback.fritz.de/2011/01/08/trb-210-27-chaos-communication-congress/ (A Podcast)
- http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2010/12/27c3_wrap_up/ (A mention on another blog)
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… and fifty zillion ever-so-slightly modified copies of the Heise Online news article. Some with creeping errors.
It is now abundantly clear that the major source for news is other news
— negativland
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=27c3+julia+wolf+pdf
I recently gave this presentation at the 27th Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin.
For some reason, the slides never made it from Pentabarf to the Fahrplan.
(They should be here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/attachments/1796_27C3_Julia_Wolf_OMG-WTF-PDF.pdf Curerntly 404, not by intent.) So first order of business, here are the long sought after slides:
27C3_Julia_Wolf_OMG-WTF-PDF.pdf
(I have had so many requests for these.)





