Adobe Protect Security Features are Disabled when opening with Chrome PDF Viewer
When implementing all Adobe/Protect security features to prevent printing, copying, or editing a secured pdf, the PDF can still be edited, copied or printed when opened by the Chrome Document Previewer. With the print option reenabled in the previewer, you can print the secured document as a PDF and save to a file directory and upon opening the saved copy, all security policies have been removed. After discovering this, I researched to see if there was an oversight on my part and stumbled across an article on WikiHow titled, "How to Unlock a Secure PDF File" which outlines a similar process which anyone of the billions of users utilizing Chrome can use to remove the security policies from any Secure Adobe PDF. This should be considered a Zero Day Exploit because all sensitive shared data in Secure Adobe PDF's can be compromised by anyone.
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Sabihah Ali commented
Can't edit pdf because of abode security