PROBLEM! I can copy and paste from secured PDFs in Google Drive

[topteachingtasks]

I've noticed that I am able to copy and paste from fully secured pdfs if I load them into Google Drive. What is Adobe Acrobat doing to solve this issue?

[Bernd Alheit]

You are using the PDF viewer from Google. Adobe Acrobat can't change this.

[topteachingtasks]

So why do I pay $10 US a month to secure my PDFS?

[Test Screen Name]

When you first set security, Acrobat should have warned you that third party apps may not respect your settings. That's what it means.

PDF is a public standard, not a secret. So the details of how software reads a secure PDF is public.  So are the security rules. Some programmers hate security and actively undermine it.

There really is no security Even in theory. If copy/paste actually was blocked, a "screen scraper" could vacuum up all the text in screen instantly.