At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) in Berlin, security researcher Julia Wolf of US company FireEye pointed out numerous, previously hardly known, security problems in connection with Adobe’s PDF standard. For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer. Wolf said that the document format is also …

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Last month, something remarkable occurred. A US government panel stood up and pointed out the link between environmental toxins and cancer. Wow… what were they thinking? (smirk & tongue firmly in cheek) I have been saying this for years. How come it took so long for them to learn that the “earth is not flat?” In a comprehensive, 240-page report, the President’s Cancer Panel declared …

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