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  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Personally I DL on a Linux machine and then upload to virus total. If they are clean, then I transfer them to an old android tablet without internet access for reading. If I was reading them on the machine I’d open them in a linux VM, either alpine or fedora silverblue with network aceess disabled.

    The state of the art is qubes OS that has a tool to neuter a PDF by taking screenshots and building a new PDF in different VMs.

      • Aeryl@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        If it works by opening it in a sandbox then taking screenshots or printing it back to a new PDF. It should be good.

        Edit: just read the github and it works exactly like this

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah I forgot about that. I remember when Micah Lee started that years ago and posted about it on twitter.

        I must give it a try and see how it performs. Thanks for the reminder