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 start
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
