Since we’re hackers here, I’m gonna reveal an easy and FREE way to hack PDF files today that doesn’t require a one time fee of only $9.95 (although feel free to donate some bawls for this one). Here at Geeks and Phreaks we’re big fans of Ubuntu and the power of linux. So I’ll use Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon for this how-to.

Hacking PDF’s are made to seem hard by all the windows programs a search for “PDF Crack Password” returns. In our case, we’re going to use 2 simple commands to convert a protected pdf into an unprotected pdf.

Here we go, In a terminal session type:

$ pdftops protected.pdf out.ps
$ pstopdf out.ps out.pdf

That’s it! If you dont have pstopdf installed on your ubuntu you can type “sudo apt-get install context” and solve that easy problem.