Copy protection

[bunn]

Someone has sent me a pdf document that is encrypted to prevent it being edited.

I am supposed to print, sign and return this document.

I was sooo strongly tempted to print it, scan it, and sign it using my whizzy new pen and touchpad thing and then email it back to them, just to show I could.  I could have edited the text as well if the whim took me.

But that seemed a bit mean, so I have found an envelope, and a stamp. Such faith in technology, it's rather sweet.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I prefer not to annoy my lovely clients. Particularly when this document was a confidentiality agreement that they wanted me to sign so they could fly me all expenses paid to Boston for a training course.

Doing something that they thought was impossible, in an effortless kind of way, to make the point that I know dark secrets that they do not wot of, is sometimes good client relations.

But I wouldn't risk anything that made them think of me as awkward. That's a bad, bad reputation to have for a small business that depends largely on recommendation.