Came across an article that lays out how to read local files from a user’s pc using Acrobat 6 … basically having an embedded .swf within a PDF is a security risk, such that if you know the location of a file on a user’s machine you can read it …

1. Create a local file called “c:\jelmer.txt” then click the link below …
2. Demo

Ought-oh.

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