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Old May 10, 2014 | 7:41 pm
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Originally Posted by 747FC
This is interesting. Can you let me know why a password protected pdf does not secure a document from being opened by an average user (not talking NSA type cracking)? Thanks.
Some kinds of PDF-level protection can be defeated simply by opening them in a reader that doesn't come from Adobe and which ignored the DRM features.

Aside from that one (which I've used to defeat watermarked and do-not-print on things), this suggests that at least as of a few years ago it was hardly NSA-level protection:
http://lifehacker.com/231955/how-to-...protected-pdfs
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