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Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature?

amio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I think that’s probably it, or pure cargo cult because “we’ve always had signatures so something’s got to go in that slot”. The whole idea of random scrawls for “authentication” has been weird all along. As if everyone walked around knowing what everyone’s signatures should look like. And if you do know, you can just… write it that way.

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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Remember back in the day when you used to have to sign the back of your credit card.

I would write in that block “ASK TO SEE ID”. At least 100 cashiers would read that and then just stare at me.

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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah. That’s because nobody cares.
  
  We just wanted to get through the line, we don’t care who’s paying your tab.
  
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  - IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Absolutely!
    
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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  then like the post office says they won’t take it unless there is a sig so I have to write see id and have a sig which of course my id has a sig.
  
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
financial institutions had your signature on file and would compare it back in the day. It made sense at one point but it does not gel well once making copies and images of everything became commonplace.

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