non standard PDF?

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Hi Timo,

That sounds very bad. If this is an official government body, I would
complain to them, because this is surveillance.

Thank you for your detailed analysis.

Best wishes,
Matthias-Christian

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:12:32PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Theo Schmidt <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch> writes:
> > How about this one:
> > http://www.skppsc.ch/1/downloads/de/Betrugspraevention_www.den-trick-kenne-ich.ch.pdf
> 
> If you decompress that with
> 
> pdftk Betrugspraevention_www.den-trick-kenne-ich.ch.pdf output a.pdf uncompress
> 
> you can see that it contains 246 small adobe flash programs:
> 
> <</P<</TF(TEMPACCESS)>>/D 1491 0 R/N(Media clip for dmPageTrigger24)/CT(application/x-shockwave-flash)/Type/MediaClip/S/MCD>>
> 
> (Yes, file says "Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9" and
> gnash plays them (shows only blue background))
> 
> If you decompile the programs you see they refer to vitrium.com which
> says
> 
> "Smart Document Technology software to control and track PDFs and
> their content, while transforming PDFs into dynamic and interactive
> documents.
> 
> Track who is reading your PDFs and determine whether your content is
> being accessed by unauthorized readers; control access to your PDFs
> and deter information misuse; embed in-document forms to capture
> information on who is reading your PDFs and qualify them as sales
> leads."
> 
> Google finds
> 
> Peter Nieforth: I'm sure there are many ways to do it, but the
> technology that we have developed is Flash based. We are actually
> using a Flash application inside a PDF, and that Flash application is
> collecting the information and reporting it back to the publisher, in
> real-time.
> 
> "As a result, we know where a document came from and where its gets
> passed to."
> 
> -- http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-peter-nieforth.shtml
> 
> 
> 
> -Timo
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