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I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

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@mjg59 oh wow, thank you for writing this up.

Give em hell

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@mjg59 so did they give you your money back or

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@leo They don't have it! They're not obliged to! This is why it's so confusing!

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@mjg59 @leo but now you could do a 'How about you have a word with the landlord to get the money back, or I'll have a word with the police. ?

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@mjg59 So, this signature stuff is cryptographically useless?

(Also, I assume they gave you the depost post haste)

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@Mutesplash the only cryptographic bit of it is the sha256, the idea is that as long as you get the document from them then the audit trail is correct

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@mjg59 I've been looking for tools to analyze PDFs, so I really appreciate this post AND the story! Holy shit!

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@mjg59 lmao, they are so bad at fraud

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@Mutesplash They missed an arguably legitimate opportunity to do blockchain!

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