I’ve been signing a lot of things electronically lately — a car rental receipt, and a credit charge for a coffee this morning. Yesterday it was legal documents and wire transfers attached to sizable obligations and assets.
But here’s the thing: electronic signatures are bullshit.
My name signed with a mouse looks like someone with a crayola having an epileptic seizure. Electronic pens skip harder than a 1st grader going to recess. And my thick finger? There’s no style in that stylus.
But we continue to go through this signture pantomime which actually offers little or no security.
Are there other things like this, where we continue a pro-forma charade even though the utility and common sense of it has long left the building?
Any other examples to ponder?!
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Oh yes, security theater at the airport. Taking off shoes, and much of that nonsense is just theater at this point, there's no real security value in going through those motions so it's just to make people feel better. Especially since if you pay 15 bucks a year or whatever for TSA pre-check, you don't have to do it. But they hired a bunch of TSA agents who need a job and of course their overpaid managers, so it's still going on and on...
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