JBS> Does anyone who's worked in the payment processing industry have a sense JBS> of how often the presence of a signature is actually used to prove (or JBS> disprove) anything? I'd sort of assumed that these days it's just security JBS> heater.
This report seems to indicate that they think it's security theatre. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/08/345820789/why-do-we-sign-for-things-a-rabbi-a-lawyer-and-a-mastercard-exec-explain On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Josh Smift <iril...@infersys.com> wrote: > I imagine that the signature was originally for non-repudiation: If you go > to a store and say "hey I didn't buy that", and they say "well, here's a > receipt with your signature on it", that makes it a lot harder for you to > prove that you didn't. > > Does anyone who's worked in the payment processing industry have a sense > of how often the presence of a signature is actually used to prove (or > disprove) anything? I'd sort of assumed that these days it's just security > theater. > > -Josh (iril...@infersys.com) > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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