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Query about digital signatures

brightonman123 · 2015-03-20 11:28:19

I was wondering how secure a signature is, when captured on a PDA / tablet - for example, signing for a delivery, or confirming a boiler inspection, etc.. what's to stop the person with device, or firm that supplied it, from using that signature to 'confirm' a separate made up contract, leaving you owing 000's?

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Timalay Posts: 950 Forumite

22 March 2015 at 11:32PM

Ectophile wrote: »

Given the completely illegible scrawl that results when I attempt to sign the slippery surface of a tablet that's balanced on my knee, I don't think there's any risk at all.

The end result never bears any resemblance to my normal signature.

This, they are darn near impossible to any grip on (like you would with papeer).

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