Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

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.

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