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Re:FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed a... by staticassertion on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:21PM (#30029431)
It's so insane that this is the state of things. For some documents I have to sign they have to be printed out and signed with ink, and then scanned and not taken a picture of.

Why?

This is obviously way less safe than using digital signatures, which are bound to me by SSO. Anyone could sign any document with a fake signature that looks just like mine, it would be very hard for them to do a digital signature associated with my account.

I get so much paper mail it's insane. Paper mail that I'm supposed to respond to with more paper mail.

Fuck that.

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Re:FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed a... by Phileosopher on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:26PM (#30029522)
It's intellectual laziness. Bureaucrats presume that paper, feeling more "solid" than a digital copy of something, is somehow more secure.

I've run across this many times when people use the word "best practices". The most safe thing is often breaking convention, so "best practices" becomes the unsafe thing everyone has done for years, even when it's _not_ industry standard or a good idea.

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