@cstross @bsdphk Computers were a mistake. That ANYONE thought, intentionally or accidentally, that the ability to run this much code inside of a document deserves to be shunned back to the Stone Ages. This is why infosec is an impossible game to win. For every one person fighting the good fight, there are a hundred shitty programmers writing vulnerabilities like this and a thousand scammers waiting to use them.
@jgeorge @bsdphk Blame Adobe for adding JavaScript to PDF, back in the days when everyone wanted to slather world wide web special sauce on their products—like LLMs and "artificial intelligence" today or "crypto/blockchain" a decade ago.
It's a repeating dark pattern, dictated mostly by managers desperate to make Line Go Up by being latest-buzzword-compatible.
