Fax vs Scanned Signatures

These ia an interesting article by Bruce Schneier about why we accept
faxed signatures through unsecured pots lines and why we can't accept
scanned signatures through email.

"Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste
-- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so
that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax
signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet people
do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card
authorizations, nondisclosure..."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/fax_signatures.html

Slashdot post - http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/03/1317221.shtml


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