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?

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Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is not universal. Many don’t proactively check, the signature is typically used afterwards when the account owner makes a claim that some action was fraudulent. Some businesses will check to avoid precisely dealing with those claims, but most don’t have to.

And also, legally the mark can be anything and it’s just a convention that it is your name.

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