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by Chilinot 1 day ago
PDFs can do all sorts of shenanigans, such as bundle executable javascript that runs when the file is opened.
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You don’t need internet to run JS though. And the JS seems to be pretty sandboxed in normal viewers too, so a pdf file shouldn’t make network requests on its own. As long as there is no iframe-like content I don’t see how rendering a document would ever need network.