[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[der Mouse]

>> A lot of documents try; that I'm perfectly willing to believe.
>> That they actually succeed in doing so, that I'm not.
> Why?

Because as far as I can tell, GhostScript - at least the version I'm
running - simply does not have any such capability.

> Unless you turn it off or block it, it's fairly trivial for them to
> connect to the outside.

Not if the engine that's interpreting the PDF doesn't have the relevant
primitives, which I think is the case here.

> What makes you think they don't succeed?

I don't think GhostScript supports the relevant primitives.  If so,
they've got the tiniest Java VM I've ever seen tucked away there
somewhere.

>> GhostScript has everything to do with it.  The remark said "your PDF
>> viewer", and my PDF viewer is GhostScript.
> What version of GhostScript will view PDF files?

Every GhostScript version I've tried.  I'm currently at

AFPL Ghostscript BETA RELEASE 8.30 (2004-05-29)

which is nearly two and a half years old at this point (I fetched it
2004-06-26), and it basically Just Works for me, but this is not new;
at least one previous version did PDFs too.

> I think what you mean is that some PDF viewers use it as the
> rendering engine, which has *NOTHING* to do with the phone home part.

If that were what I meant, that would be a reaosnable point.  But it's
not what I meant.  The docs say that GhostScript handles PDF natively,
and everything I've seen jibes with that.

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