Saturday, May 24, 2014

23 Mobile Things - Thing 6 - Creating & Editing Docs

I already use Google docs a lot for work and school, and have used it a little on my phone, so for this Thing I decided to try SignNow. I had to make an account, then played with the Sample document, making a fake signature written with my finger, which then appeared below the line it was supposed to be on (maybe I clicked inaccurately?), same with the typed text I tried to add to the sample document. With the free account you can sign up to 10 documents a month - if you want/need to sign more, there's a paid account level.

Personally, I do not want my signature in digital format, possibly hackable and available for others to use. I saw in the Google Apps store that a basketball player had used it to sign some contract, but to me it doesn’t seem alright. I realize that I digitally sign stuff all frequently at stores, but having it on my phone seems risky. Professionally, I can see that digitally signing things might be super convenient and efficient and cost-saving, and possibly required by the organization, but it still seems unreasonable and unsafe in some ways.

1 comment:

  1. I have also read and heard a lot about a possible unsafety of digital signing, so I wonder If there were any researches indicating the level of fraud in digital signatures compared to manual ones. electronic signature software

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