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by 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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what do you expect it to be distributed as?
Adobe Flash wrapped in an executable player, of course.
Thanks for making evening less boring ;) I also have my somewhat related strategy, it is called Zero Rust.
I was thinking text/plain would be best way to get the point across.
The type of people that DoD wants to read this are not the type of people that prefer text/plain.
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.
Those are the people that need to understand that a lot of security depends on simpler file formats.
Except that’s completely false.
Do you not trust the PDF?

Sounds like you're getting the message just fine!