My water company has started doing this thing where they email you a pdf that's been encrypted by your zip code and inside is a form you fill out AND HIT SEND to pay your bill.
Absolutely do not trust it.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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TBH idk why we still allow Adobe standards for anything anymore. They were cool when Flash Player was a thing but then they killed it, so yeah.
Ubiquity and use b2b. Hard to get people to use new shit when it's that entangled in the day-to-day money making process.