> Russell, > > No, you are not being paranoid, but we do have to accept that PDFs are > not going anywhere (and you can encrypt if you desire) > > As a printshop with a full PDF workflow, we open hundreds of files daily > and see this constantly. > > Worse though, are the Excel mailing lists send to us for addressing. > > These usually come from a Title company or mortgage company and have an > intense amount of > private information including loan amounts, income, etc. > > The true solution would be to make the sender responsible for securing > information sent, not the > receiver who has little control. > > My $0.02. > > -Bill Ensley > www.bearprinting.com > >> I just had a problem the other day where someone wanted a PDF emailed. >> It had information on it I consider private and PDFs (usually) are not >> encrypted. Am I missing something, or being overly paranoid? >> >> Russell Johnson >> [email protected]
GPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) is available for free. If you are concerned about the privacy of information (and you should), you need to teach your customers how to use it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
