PDF files, for all the governmental pdf-files.
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Finally a good use of my tax dollars
"unlike many of the other PDFs" suggests it's not unlike all of the other PDFs. I'm curious what other city documents are like it.
If they force us to stop watching porn, we should force them to start watching it
So someone can upload a PDF and link to it externally? That's a REALLY dumb design. ANYTHING like that WILL be exploited.
I've been doing web stuff since 1996, and while for professional projects I take security seriously, over the years I've put stuff up - largely "security by obscurity"... it usually flies under the radar, but not always. I remember also somewhere around 2010-2015 I installed a URL shortener so I could create private short URLs. By default, you didn't have to log in to create one, which was convenient. And even though only I used it in places that wouldn't get much attention, it still got found and abused.
Anything widespread or with obvious flaws WILL get compromised and abused. It's a hard lesson to learn, but there's absolutely zero excuse for someone providing services to multiple government agencies to have an open system like that. That's embarassing for them.
Trump officials offended that they're forced to look at a woman over the age of 18
"Malicious."
Pretty soon you'll need age verification to view whitehouse.gov
“Basically the craziest things you can think of will show up as long as you’re on image search,” Penny told 404 Media. “I’ll be doing this all week.”
Doing that extra detailed research...
Uh yep, pdfs are a fucking nightmare from a security standpoint, ... guess we're gonna keep learning that the hard way, as opposed to maybe, I dunno, using a more sane document format, that isn't a meta-container for basically every other file format in existence, at this point.
Oh well I guess!
You think that's bad?
Child pornography is being injected into the White House using the election process...

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