I’ve had to fill out a few forms requiring signatures at work and am rarely asked to provide a physical copy. I don’t always have the means to use the “something I have and something I know” method and printing something, signing it and rescanning it back is just tedious.
Instead, either Adobe or OSX - I’m not sure which - offers to generate a signature for you. Signatures don’t really have inherent value anyway, but I think it’s funny that this is even more meaningless since the system is just generating what it thinks yours should be. Also, I haven’t really experimented but I would be surprised if the signature is unique.
You can sign with a mouse or touchpad but those results always look less like my actual signature than the generated one does.
There are places that ask for it, and it was common before also, at least in the US. Are you perhaps on the younger side, or haven’t been much in the US about…m 10 to 15 years ago? That’s when I had the most signature confirming type stuff, with some places not accepting a card that wasn’t signed (usually smaller shops that didn’t have a customer facing POS device, or offline CC stuff, which occasionally happened at places like Cons).
Why would you not sign it and then use signing as a method of verification?
Do you upload your signature when you shop online?
I’ve had to fill out a few forms requiring signatures at work and am rarely asked to provide a physical copy. I don’t always have the means to use the “something I have and something I know” method and printing something, signing it and rescanning it back is just tedious.
Instead, either Adobe or OSX - I’m not sure which - offers to generate a signature for you. Signatures don’t really have inherent value anyway, but I think it’s funny that this is even more meaningless since the system is just generating what it thinks yours should be. Also, I haven’t really experimented but I would be surprised if the signature is unique.
You can sign with a mouse or touchpad but those results always look less like my actual signature than the generated one does.
Yeah, signature-based security is good in theory but is obviously heavily flawed.
When i have to “sign” online documents all I’m required to do is click a checkbox. lol
I have never in my life needed to use a credit card signature as verification
Well now you know why
places that don’t use chip & pin are wild
Those places don’t exist
There are places that ask for it, and it was common before also, at least in the US. Are you perhaps on the younger side, or haven’t been much in the US about…m 10 to 15 years ago? That’s when I had the most signature confirming type stuff, with some places not accepting a card that wasn’t signed (usually smaller shops that didn’t have a customer facing POS device, or offline CC stuff, which occasionally happened at places like Cons).