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by resolutebat
872 days ago
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This is a thing that already happens in Japan, where physical personal and company seals (inkan) are regularly used for all sorts of documents and transactions that would get signed in the West. But they've evolved protocols to ensure they're secured and stored, which is why this rarely causes problems in real life. |
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A signature (or stamp) is easy to fake and get away with for a while. It's very rare that the authenticity of signatures is checked right away. Perhaps even easier than stealing or faking a not-particularly-secured stamp. It only happens when some problem arises and is investigated after the fact. The question is not whether the signature is "authentic enough" but who signed the document. You can aks and answer this question about a seal equally well.
The reason we have signatures (or stamps) is as an explicit ritual signifying ratification of a document that one cannot plausibly deny later.