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adjl posted...

It doesn't help that the signatures of people that have to sign lots of things are rarely just a matter of writing their name in their handwriting. It's often a heavily simplified set of motions that they execute from pure muscle memory, so replicating that with a bit of practice isn't nearly as hard as people would like to believe.

They're not without their own issues, but I much prefer digital signatures where possible. No messing around with printing and scanning, no need to find a pen, no RSI's, actual confirmation of who signed it and when, much harder to forge... If the knowledge of how to do it would just become a little more commonplace so I could stop having to send documents back to my superiors with a reminder that copy+pasting a photo of their signature or typing their name in a cursive-looking font don't count as digital signatures, we'd be golden.

I knew of one that might be difficult to forge. Dude had a little doodle of links head as part of his signature. It was even on his ID he asked if he could do that and dmv said if you can fit in that tiny box go for it. On the other hand I had a boss who had the easily forgebal signature. It was like a circle with a L going through it.