Automating fake PDF signatures

Mark Frauenfelder 8:21 am Thu Apr 9, 2020

Cory reports on a gem of a utility called Falsisign.

Falsisign takes in 27 variants of your signature and then feeds these sigs and your PDF to it, with the (x,y) for each signature blank as arguments, and it will produce a slightly off-center, slightly degraded new PDF that looks like you actually signed it.

Life before Falsisign:

Receive document as an attached PDF
Paste a digital scan of your signature on the signature lines of the document
Return "signed" document by email
Receive email from person who sent the document telling you that you have to actually print the PDF sign it, scan it, and email it back
Print the PDF
Sign it
Scan it
Email it back

Life after Falsisign:

Receive document as attached PDF
Run falsisign.sh
Email it back

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