> As the US banking system (and especially the bank clearinghouses controlled
> by the Federal Reserve system) has gone electronic, all the banks I know of
> have stopped bothering to verify the signatures on checks, and similarly
> those on credit- and debit-card drafts. Getting them to st
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John David Galt wrote:
> As the US banking system (and especially the bank clearinghouses controlled
> by the Federal Reserve system) has gone electronic, all the banks I know of
> have stopped bothering to verify the signatures on checks, and similarly
> those on credit- and
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> The insecurity of digital signatures pales when we realize how little
> security there is in the rest of the world. Handwritten and electronic
> signatures are no more secure than digital ones.
Either would be better than nothing.
As the US banking system (and especi
