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1. laserbeam · 1790071762 · focus · HN ↗

   I'd say the reason for this is that PDFs are not viral like images or videos. I don't think any of the technical arguments are strong enough.

   If you want to forge a PDF, you do it because you have a private target in mind. Financial fraud, corporate espionage... There are other settings but people don't just share PDFs around for you to see a deluge of fake ones.

   1. rithdmc · 1790072415 · focus · HN ↗

      I believe that some of the DNC (and other hack & leak) documents were tampered with. Does anyone remember if that included pdfs?

      1. marysol5 · 1790076723 · focus · HN ↗

         One was a word doc they added "Confidential" to the footer, then released as PDF

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