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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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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You can’t trust everything you see in movies.

The act of signing a legal document is what has the power, not the signature itself. Which is why legal documents related to really big things – marriage, home loans, and such – will often require one or more witnesses to sign that they saw you sign it (of your own volition either explicitly stated or heavily implied).