Dangerzone 0.4.0 has been released! This release includes more convenient functionality for converting more than one document at a time, support for Fedora 37, Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.10, and several other bugfixes and improvements.
See https://dangerzone.rocks/ for installation instructions and see our changelog for details:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#dangerzone-040
Dangerzone lets you take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.
Say you're a journalist receiving a tip in the form of an electronic document. It could be your next big story, or it could be a file containing malware intended to spy on you.
Dangerzone is intended to help anyone manage these risks when dealing with electronic documents. See our "About" page for more information:
@dangerzone As much as this seems like a neat idea, and is likely made with good intentions, all I can think is if I was a nation state, or even just a random hacker, this is both (A) a really great target to hit for infecting users or even just passive surveillance, or (B) setting up as a malicious actor for both of those same reasons.
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Care to elaborate? Dangerzone runs locally on your computer and works offline - it's not a web service.
The containers are networkless and a container escape is far from trivial -- which is far preferable to opening a potentially unsafe document without a sandbox. The result is effectively a virtual photocopy of the document which protects the user from malware, tracking beacons, etc.
See https://dangerzone.rocks/about.html for a bit more detail on how it works.
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