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mjg59today at 4:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

Not quite the scenario described (it wasn't an academic paper), but https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html is my experience of dealing with a forged PDF. Part of the reason it's rare is that it's actually very hard to do it well!


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anitiltoday at 4:30 AM

I believe it's actually linked in the OP about half way down. What a crazy thing for an agent to do - to turn a minor disagreement into a maybe-crime.

jstanleytoday at 7:27 AM

Are you saying that RightSignature puts the checksum information inside the document and therefore destroys the checksum? What is the thinking behind that?

arjviktoday at 4:21 AM

was linked in the article!