Bruce Schneier’s latest commentary looks into one of my pet peeves: faxed signature requirements. He writes “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…” It’s amazing how organizations are sometimes willing to accept low-quality, unverified scans delivered over POTS as authoritative, when they won’t take the same information in a high-resolution scan delivered over (relatively secure) email.
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