vocab-irrevocably-changed guy on Nostr: This is nerd talk, but: QubesOS, or at minimum the Debian environment that's bundled ...

This is nerd talk, but: QubesOS, or at minimum the Debian environment that's bundled within it, has the option - built into the file manager, available on a right-click - to convert a PDF to "trusted PDF", which (I presume) scrubs it of scripts that might phone home or whatever

Extremely cool and like, kudos to whoever. It should be that easy

And if you didn't know... PDFs can have nasty scripts in them that phone home (to whichever intelligence agency or private investigator or whoever, I'm not trying to be tinfoil hat here, this is just the world we live in and it's not necessarily sexy or even inconsequential BUT MAYBE IT IS) so it is best to scrub them. Of course... who wants to do that? nice that Qubes has made it easy