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Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs. A @freedomofpress project. [bridged from social.freedom.press/@dangerzone on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
We've just published Dangerzone 0.11.0 for Windows, which was lagging behind due to certificates issues. You can find it here: dangerzone.rocks/news/2026-07-02-0.…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Dangerzone 0.11.0 is now available on Linux and macOS (Windows release is coming soon). This release brings several stability and security improvements, such as making OCR much faster and allowing users to convert new documents without leaving the app. This and more in our post about this […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
GitHub’s container registry doesn’t authorize fine-grained tokens, but requires personal access tokens — a security flaw. At FPF, we circumvent this limitation by publishing our container images with a specific PR-based workflow we call “The GHCR Signer” ⤵︎ […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
🧵 AI-assisted vulnerabilities are all the rage nowadays. We had a close call with two of them in the last few days. Here’s how our defenses held up:
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
🧵 Dangerzone is a free app developed by FPF that converts potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images into a safe-to-open PDFs. It converts docs into pixels, then reconstructs them as PDFs. Read the thread for important details about our recent sandbox update ⤵️
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SecureDrop @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, a tool allowing web browsers to verify the origin of code before they run it. 🌞 Today WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
For Dangerzone, the reproducibility of our container image is one of our core defenses against supply chain attacks. We explain why and share some tools we created along the way. dangerzone.rocks/news/2026-03-02-re…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
We’re kickstarting a series of technical articles about recent developments in Dangerzone. First up, we explain how we improved our image's footprint, security and build complexity, by switching from Alpine Linux to Debian Stable: dangerzone.rocks/news/2026-02-05-de…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026
Join us in FOSDEM 2026 for a double feature: 🎥 "Who’s reproducing the reproducible images?" 📅 Saturday @ 11:50 🔗 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/RYM8… 🎥 "Dangerzone: Bleach your documents" 📅 Sunday @ 10:45 🔗 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/JZ3F…
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FOSDEM 2026 - Who’s reproducing the reproducible images?
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026
Tracking pixels in documents are nothing new in tech circles, but whistleblowers and activists need to be aware of them. Here's what a company promises to their prospects:
Snippet from a company website that advertises its product for tracking PDF documents. The descriptions reads: "[product] uses advanced steganography to embed invisible tracking codes in PDFs, enabling precise and effortless leak detection."
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025
We just released a major update to Dangerzone, it's now easier to install and use than ever before! If you're a journalist, use Dangerzone to sanitize documents you receive from sources and protect yourself from malware: dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-12-02-0.…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025
Dangerzone 0.10.0 has been released, containing two major changes: sandbox auto-updates and embedding Podman for macOS and Windows. Check the announcement here: dangerzone.rocks/news
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
The first release candidate for Dangerzone 0.10.0 is out, and we’re looking for feedback from users, especially on macOS and Windows. Thanks! dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11-03-0.…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025
Docker Desktop releases prior to August 20th (v4.44.3) had a vulnerability that allowed malicious containers to compromise the host. Dangerzone is not affected, since it creates containers without network access. Still, if you haven't updated your Docker Desktop installation, this is your […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025
Dangerzone 0.9.1 has been released. This release mainly contains bug fixes for Windows and macOS platforms. dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-07-10-0.…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025
Coming to Dataharvest in Belgium? Feel free to reach out to us, we would be happy to talk about Dangerzone or related topics. If you don’t want to scout for folks wearing “Freedom of the Press Foundation” t-shirts, send us a Signal message instead to meet […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2025
Dangerzone 0.9.0 has been released. This release makes our container images fully reproducible, brings security updates, and introduces experimental support for Podman Desktop on Windows and macOS. dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-04-09-0.…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
Big props to our SecureDrop colleagues for taking a swing at the "Javascript crypto is considered harmful" Leviathan: securedrop.org/news/introducing-web… tl;dr: Browsers should be able to load security-sensitive pages only when the […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025
We're aware that Dangerzone sometimes fails to convert files on macOS 15.2 or greater, and are investigating the issue. We will post an update to this thread once we have a workaround or a final fix. The corresponding GitHub issue is github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzon….
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GUI fails with "Unknown error code '0'" (macOS) · Issue #1101 · freedomofpress/dangerzone
Converting certain documents on the latest macOS (15.2) results in an error 'Unknown error code '0'. Details What happened? Attempting to convert a .docx or .ppt file results in "Unknown error code...
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025
For our Apple macOS users: Before upgrading to macOS Sequoia, please first ensure you've upgraded Docker Desktop to avoid a known issue. More information here: dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-01-27-do…
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2025
PSA for our macOS users: macOS may report Docker as malware, due to a code-signing certificate that recently expired. Please follow this GitHub issue for a workaround, if you are affected: github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/75…
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[Workaround in description] Mac is detecting Docker as a malware and keeping it from starting · Issue #7520 · docker/for-mac
Description Whenever Docker is started, this error is shown: Malware Blocked. “com.docker.socket” was not opened because it contains malware. this action did not harm your Mac. Reproduce Start Dock...
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2024
Dangerzone 0.8.1 has been released! This is mainly a security release that tackles a security vulnerability in the quarantined environment where documents are opened. Vulnerabilities like this are expected and do not compromise the security of Dangerzone, but users are strongly advised to […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2024
@runasand @GIJN There's lots of practical advice in this article that's easy to follow, and will considerably improve your security posture: gijn.org/resource/introduction-inve… Also, we can't stress this enough: "It’s worth noting that photos and […]
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dangerzone @dangerzone.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024
This account is now bridged to #Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/dangerzone.social.… if you want to follow us there. :)
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