To Protect PDF Ebooks You Need More than a Great Password
So, you have written your first masterpiece, perhaps the best selling ebook ever and you decide the best way to protect it is to create a PDF with a complicated password that no one will ever guess that will prevent anyone from stealing your work, changing it in the document or claiming it as there own. After all, that is the best way to protect PDF ebooks, right? Wrong!
Unfortunately, using a password alone to protect your PDF file is not going to provide the protection that you envisioned.
For years, individuals have been using PDF documents in an attempt to protect PDF ebooks. There are two ways that this protection was used. Firstly a password can be used to prevent all but those authorized from using the PDF file from opening it.
Secondly, and most commonly, passwords are used to prevent others from editing the ebook, or printing it, copying it, etc. Of course, any one can print a password protected ebook by making a screen shot of the page and then printing it from a different document, so you need to make that as difficult as possible.
As for being able to modify your ebook, that is not too difficult either. There are plenty of programs available online that can break the encryption used to protect PDF ebooks. That’s right, unfortunately using a password alone is not going to provide you with the password that you need.
Some programs can break your encryption in a matter of minutes, while older version might take a longer time. One consolation may be that these programs do not reveal your password, they just make it useless, so you don’t have to worry that a password that you use to protect other things has been compromised.
There are also hacker programs that are designed to crack your password. But these are not nearly as convenient for a criminal as programs that break the encryption protecting a PDF ebook. Because a password breaker can take a much longer amount of time to figure out the password, and slows down the hacker’s computer exponentially.
Choosing to use a PDF with a password protection just is not enough to ensure that your document is secure. Speak to IT professionals and explore additional PDF protection options to get solid and cost-effective recommendations on how to best protect your PDF documents.
