diff --git a/content/notes/re-spearphishing.md b/content/notes/re-spearphishing.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e5f23b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/re-spearphishing.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "Re spearphishing" +date: 2022-07-10T17:34:19-07:00 +replyURL: "https://xeiaso.net/blog/spearphishing" +replyTitle: "Spearphishing: it can happen to you too" +replyType: "BlogPosting" +replyAuthor: "Xe Iaso" +replyAuthorURI: "https://xeiaso.net/" +--- +I think that using a dedicated air-gapped machine just for opening PDFs is a bit much if you don't rely on assistive technologies to read PDFs. A much less nuclear option: Qubes OS has an excellent [PDF converter](https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter) to convert PDFs to safe bitmaps, and back into PDFs. The results are completely inaccessible, so I wouldn't recommend sharing the final artifacts; however, this approach is fine for personal use. + +The Qubes blog covers this in more detail: {{}}{{}}, by {{}}{{}} + +SaaS can actually be helpful when it comes to processing potentially-malicious files. In high school, we had to make heavy use of Google Drive. One approach that I used to use was to open a PDF with Google Docs and export the resulting Google Doc. +