Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

[Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25:51AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
> I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way 
> of seeing things.  Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at 
> the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it so 
> that is not able to be extracted at all?  If I had a digital signature, I 
> wouldn't want to put it somewhere that it could be used by someone that I 
> wouldn't want it to be used by.

What's to prevent me from printing it out and forging the signature by
hand? Or, god forbid, zooming in, taking a screen-cap, and using the
extracted image that way? If this design is *for security*, there are
many problems. 

(Incidentally, Donald Knuth stopped sending out real cheques for bug
discovery because people would scan it, put it online for bragging
rights, and Knuth's bank account would get targeted for fraudulant
transactions.)

W
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