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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by tastroder on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:20AM (#20101945)
The advisory links to https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/what-we-do/cybersec... (PDF)

I really wonder what the utility for that distribution form is, are there people printing these out? Or is there some requirement for them to generate a document ID that they could not get for plain web/HTML documents?

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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by jl6 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:31AM (#20101989)
Do you mean to ask why is the same content published in PDF format? I quite like PDFs these days. Self-contained, archiveable, readable, sane layout, JavaScript-free, (usually) ad/cookie/tracking-free, no social media sharing buttons... the only drawback is no/poor reflow of text to fit device screen size. But I’ll live with that.
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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by tastroder on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:42AM (#20102039)
Kind of, mainly since the PDF looks different enough that it implies manual effort being involved. It felt like an odd choice but I get your points, might just be me then. Thanks.
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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by fbi-director on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:37AM (#20102267)
Because the NSA has an unknown exploit on Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, and therefor wants as many downloads of this malicious pdf as possible. From people like us, in positions like us.

/s....?

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