Re:Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
by pdonis on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:14PM
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> the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing
Yes, but not all contracts do that. For example, any contract for services is not covered by the UCC.
Re:Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
by caf on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:39PM
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I'm not a a lawyer, but according to the first google result "the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing".[1]
In practice, this doesn't seem to mean that every time you buy an iPhone, Apple provides you a paper contract authenticated with an actual verifiable hand-signed signature of an authorised officer.
I'm pretty confident that I could sign an email with a DKIM key if that were published, however, there's nothing that would give me the confidence that I could forge a pen signature in such a way that not even an expert could detect the forgery.
> or verbal contracts (which are valid contracts and regularly enforced).
I'm not a a lawyer, but according to the first google result "the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing".[1]
> Disputes over whether the text of the executed contract is authentic are rare in real life.
Maybe they are rare precisely because it's hard and risky to forge signatures.
[1] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/are-verbal-agreements-bind...