eli5: why do we still rely on hand signatures to validate contracts?

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aren’t by now easy to fake? (e.g hand-writing robots)

Plus we often do digital signatures, which are basically a jpg on top of a PDF document, no?

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They’re not really about identification. Most important contracts are signed in the presence of a 3rd party. They’re the actual evidence.

A signature can be an X or an O on a page. In some Asian countries, they even use stamps; which aren’t necessarily identifiable as one person’s name

A signature is more about saying “this is a legally mandated promise.” It lays the grounds for legal consequence if someone doesn’t follow through. Otherwise, forgetting about a spoken promise is a civil court issue.

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