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date    = "2025-12-08T17:33:38+00:00"
lastmod = "2025-12-08T17:33:38+00:00"
tags    = [ "web" ]
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I'm remembering something kind of amusing. I used to be big on
[portable documents](https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Background)
until I discovered the ultra hard way how cryptic everything was underneath the
hood. They're good enough, but have any of you ever heard of the cracked
[WWF format](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_(file_format)>) (not wrestling)?

It was an encrypted portable document where the defining feature was to make
printing technically impossible to save the world. Good thing it was `.wwf` and
not `.wwe`. This might sound fantastical, but maybe
[it was really true](https://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/12/world-wildlife-fund-wwf-format-cracked.html).