Comment by matheusmoreira
4 years ago
Same here. Real signatures on paper as well as cryptographic signatures are legally binding. Pasting a picture onto a PDF isn't but nobody wants to deal with the bureaucracy so they do it anyway. Getting a cryptographic token you can use to legally sign things is such a bureaucratic nightmare too, nobody wants to do it, including myself and I really like this stuff.
How does it work if you defraud someone using such a a PDF contract with a pasted signature?
You just get away with it because the contract wasn’t binding so there was no fraud, right?
I bet those “non-binding” contracts are actually much more binding than you might think.
Fax and autopen signatures are also valid. Make it look like a fax and you're golden.