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		LiquidSummer on May 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researcher... Extra protection as opposed to opening it in adobe reader, yes, much likely. Chrome has a sandbox for pdfs as far as I'm aware, they also provide a lot of big bug bounties to people who find any remote execution bugs in Chrome. So, in conclusion, yes, chrome provides relatively more security than other software when opening PDFs.

Danieru on May 28, 2012 [–]

Even better would be firefox's javascript based pdf reader.

rbanffy on May 28, 2012 | [–]

You can always open it inside a throwaway VM. I keep a couple ;-)

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