WebSign: A live demonstration to sign your signature on HTML pages, and save it to database
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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 4 Feb 2010 12:14 Shiuh-Lin Lee wrote: > Andrew Poulos wrote: >> The thing with signatures is not so much that the name in the signature >> refers to a specific person (or even if the signature is an accurate >> facsimile of the specific person's typical signature) but that some >> witness can verify that that specific person put that signature on that >> form. >> >> In a legal sense, I don't see how "anonymous" signing can work. >> [...] > > You are right.... but my experience is, when I worked with some IT > companies during the past years, I was keeping asked to sign all kind > NDAs (basically, download & print-out their legal PDF form, sign it, > and mail it back to requesting company)... I did it "anonymously", and > no one asked me to provide witness proofs. LOL. That fools like you can get away with it does not mean it is legally sound. I hope for you that whoever employed you doesn't read this. > I don't think WebSign (or similar technologies) can resolve everything, > however, it may provide us a different way doing some web business. Like losing our jobs after it turns out that the electronic signature on a contract was not authenticated? No, thank you. PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee |