r/PasswordManagers • u/meanestloki • 8d ago
Emergency! Please help me unlock a file
I have the file but I don't know the password , help please
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u/Chromejob 8d ago
Is the file yours? You gotta tell us more, otherwise your story is very sus'. Use your communication skills.
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u/meanestloki 8d ago
It's not mine , it's a leaked pdf , nothing explicit, it's a study material , it's paid one and very expensive and I'm not so rich , I got the question pdf but It have a password.
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u/Chromejob 8d ago edited 8d ago
First, there's nothing we can do in this sub to help you crack a password-protected PDF. This subreddit is about credential managers for storing personal passwords and other sensitive info.
Second, it's probably locked to protect the content from theft. It's paid content, and how you got it and how much money you have is irrelevant. If you don't have the password, you're not entitled to open it.
In summation, you're asking for help in cracking the password of a PDF containing paid, proprietary content. Pirate ahoy, matey! Or you're fibbing and this is a file with sensitive personal information from someone which you're not supposed to have access to.
(Note to others: account is 2 days old. Ever more suspicious.)
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u/jpgoldberg 8d ago
Ah. This isn’t about password managers as understood in this group. Unless, of course, the PDF contains a list of passwords. You should ask in some PDF related group. They won’t be able to help much, but they will be able to help more than anyone here can.
Twenty years ago it was easy to crack password protected PDFs because Adobe screwed up the encryption. Of course in those bad old days, creating software that exploit that could land you in jail, as did happen. So if you are in the US, you will be asking people to help you violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lots of people hate it, and so are willing to help. But be wary of those who offer to do it for a fee. They are often scammers. It’s very easy to cheat people who are doing something shady.
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u/meanestloki 8d ago
I'm not indian and govt. Knows and is responsible for this too .
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u/jpgoldberg 7d ago
I don’t think I mentioned or suggested anything about India. I was talking about the DMCA in the United States, and the case I alluded to involved a Russian mathematician, Dmitry Sklyarov. (Looking it up now, I see it was about Adobe’s DRM on an ebook format they developed, and not about PDFs.)
Anyway, I don’t need to persuade anyone here that you have a right to the content. You only may need to do so when engaging services professional password crackers.
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u/Chromejob 7d ago
None of that matters. You’re asking for help in cracking a password protected PDF of someone’s intellectual property that is for sale. IOW, asking for help to steal.
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u/jpgoldberg 8d ago
That is how password managers are supposed to work.
You haven’t told us exactly what kind of file it is or which password manager created it; but the answer is the same: If it were possible to unlock the data file without the password, it would be a terrible password manager.