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daveevad
1303 days ago
It seems to me that distributing this information as a PDF undercuts the message a bit. It's tangential; sure, but also, it doesn't strike me as particularly good security either.
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eat_veggies
1303 days ago
what do you expect it to be distributed as?
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brookst
1303 days ago
Adobe Flash wrapped in an executable player, of course.
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FpUser
1303 days ago
Thanks for making evening less boring ;) I also have my somewhat related strategy, it is called Zero Rust.
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daveevad
1303 days ago
I was thinking text/plain would be best way to get the point across.
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nvr219
1303 days ago
The type of people that DoD wants to read this are not the type of people that prefer text/plain.
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nonrandomstring
1303 days ago
That cuts to the nub of the problems more than any other comment. We've been spending far too much on the presentation layer of security for 20 years.
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daveevad
1303 days ago
Those are the people that need to understand that a lot of security depends on simpler file formats.
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imwillofficial
1303 days ago
Except that’s completely false.
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kube-system
1303 days ago
Do you not trust the PDF?
Sounds like you're getting the message just fine!
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