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Wait Online security training has

2011-02-26 01:21:05.103986+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Wait? Online security training has disabled "print to file" for the completion certificate? Now it has become a moral imperative!

[ related topics: Ethics Handicaps & Disabilities ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2011-02-26 13:05:53.221268+00 by: meuon

That's why I love the phrase: Security Theater. (Laughing)

#Comment Re: made: 2011-02-26 04:41:44.100215+00 by: Dan Lyke

It was a Flash thingie, press "Print", get an abbreviated print popup that only let me choose my physical printer. So I installed the cups-pdf package, PDF printing showed up as a physical printer, and used that.

Their security-guru-fu was no match for my Open Source chi.

#Comment Re: made: 2011-02-26 01:34:50.227469+00 by: meuon

Assuming this is a PDF you downloaded, twiddling the feature bits is not hard unless it is a properly encrypted and password protected PDF. You might also want to try some of the "lesser" PDF viewers, as they skip some of the "feature implementation" of the Adobe Reader. Evince worked on my last "protected" document.