On Fri, 24 Apr 2008, Unix Fan wrote:
I'd support the removal of DRM in xpdf, it's mostly a nuisance then a feature...
One could even classify it as a security problem (on PDF protocol level),
since the user of a PDF document is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack
from a mischevious author. (The services to copy and/or print a particular
text can be denied without the user's consent.)
Just in case someone thinks that patches should be restricted to
security fixes...
And since the xpdf author doesn't agree that DRM is a stupid thing
to enforce (see http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/cracking.html) it seems
hard to remove it by an upstream patch.
/Johan
