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Bank teller verified my signature today. First time this has ever happened. Realization: "signing one's name" is 99.5% ritual.
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and yet we rely on digital signatures, which already seem dubious on those grounds.
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arguably, the threat that signing defends against isn't forgery, but rather post hoc denial of intention. "i didn't realize..." etc. maybe?
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Yep, I always just scribble nonsense
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Me too, but the teller rejected my scribble this time! (Was making a reasonably large withdrawal.)
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I always thought it was never for verification. But fornliability if later realize you lied on something
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As a child, I agonized over the thought that my signature would be used to verify checks. Spent hours practicing...
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I wonder what higher-tech equivalents will develop for bankers' medallion signature guarantees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallion_signature_guarantee …
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One in two-hundred sounds about right for me as well.
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