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From a new features overview of Autodesk Design Review 2010 comes the following snake oil claim:
Digital Signatures
To help secure your data, you can now digitally sign DWFx files.


As I've explained before, digital signatures do not provide data security; they simply authenticate the person that applied the signature. Digital signatures are a welcome feature with many potential uses, but data security is not one of them.

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