[fallat]

Download it, block all ports, run pdf reader in a chroot...B)

[leni536]

And on a separate X server. It's more like trusting your reader than the PDF file itself.

[casualhner]

>destroy computer after reading.

[ptaipale]

Perfectly common, of course. Usually the way to do this is to use a virtual machine which you then throw away.

[beagle3]

but why do you trust your hypervisor? QEMU had a floppy controller escape bug published last month. Xen has one today.

[JupiterMoon]

By doing this the chain of things that have to be broken for an exploit to escape is getting longer.

[leni536]

So the best thing you can do is to nest different kind of VM hypervisors with different OS guests and read the pdf in the innermost machine.

[JupiterMoon]

Or just read it on someone else's computer?

[fallat]

There's a name for that. The Stallman Co-Computer.