This was maybe five or ten years ago. IIRC it was some sort of “insurance compliance” thing, but for legal compliance everyone accepts electronic document AFAIK, and they were providing electronic documents in the end so…. It sure seems like the profound ignorance of technology which is raising your blood pressure. 🤷‍♂️

Fair. I did mean shred the printout of the PDF.

I know someone whose job was to print out a PDF, highlight a set field on the PDF with a highlighter (say, SSN or sometning) then scan it back in and shred the PDF. All. Day. Long. Surely pushing a boulder up a hill is better than that

I think the death penalty could be just, but, unfortunately our justice system is too capricious and dysfunctional to be worthy of administering it.