Eli5 How are public figure’s signatures available online without it being a security issue? If movies taught us anything is that signatures have immense power
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As mentioned it’s the act of signing that commits.you to the contract. Prior to public education, a man’s word was his contract, and you did all you could to protect your name in business dealings. For other things like church documents or government documents that the public had to sign, they would put an X on the document and the person would kiss it as a sign of agreement, then the church officer or government official would sign that they witnessed the contract.
Later a thumb print was briefly used to sign documents.
Royalty and upper class had signet rings they would press into a wax seal on the document to sign them.
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