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[–] 9 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

I think that's probably it, or pure cargo cult because "we've always had signatures so something's got to go in that slot". The whole idea of random scrawls for "authentication" has been weird all along. As if everyone walked around knowing what everyone's signatures should look like. And if you do know, you can just... write it that way.

(Plenty of countries just have digital "signing" that's a bit more like something sane, a central authentication thing based on your ID number and 2FA.)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Remember back in the day when you used to have to sign the back of your credit card.

    I would write in that block “ASK TO SEE ID”. At least 100 cashiers would read that and then just stare at me.

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