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Capture Ink Signatures in your Web Forms: Handwritten Signatures from Desktop and Mobile Devices

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Ink Signatures enable you to capture the handwritten signatures of your web form users and save these with their form submissions.

  • Easy: Users can employ a mouse or stylus on desktop or laptop computers; a stylus or their finger on a mobile device
  • Compatible: Works with all major web browsers and iPhone, iPad, and Android-powered mobile devices.

If you would like customers to sign their name to your web form, rather than merely checking a “checkbox,” now you can — and it is easy with the LuxSci Secure Form service.

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How Secure are Password-Protected Files?

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

We recently discussed email security for accountants and mentioned that the use of password-protected files is not usually a very good solution for meeting data privacy needs.  After writing this and getting some feed back, we thought that the issue of password-protected files really deserves some further discussion.  Many people are under the assumption that if they use the “password protection” features of whatever software they are using, that their data is safe and secure.  However, this is not necessarily the case.  Why?

Using password-protected files to secure data is fast and easy and built into many applications.  Why not use it?  Certainly, password protecting files is much better than not doing so.  However, there are several things that determine how secure these “protected” files really are.

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