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PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)

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  1. eru · · focus · HN ↗
    Gwern, in case you are reading this, there's a typo in:

    > (In the rare cases anyone tampers with PDFs, it quickly turns into a technical morass and he-said-she-said, and requires several orders of magnitude more effort to prove than to do; consider the hoops epxperts had to jump through in the Craig Wright cases, or even just a landlord editing a contract—where the contract was done through a digital document timestamping service!)

    Specifically "epxperts"

    1. black_knight · · focus · HN ↗
      Typos are so easy to weed out these days, I assume including them is a stylistic choice.
      1. eru · · focus · HN ↗
        Gwern fixed it in the meantime. So presumably it was not a stylistic choice.
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