> Ultimately I learned that a signature is definitely not proof that someone explicitly signed anything or what the state was at the point of signing it. I've

> Ultimately I learned that a signature is definitely not proof that someone explicitly signed anything or what the state was at the point of signing it. I've wondered about this from the first moment I scanned a copy of my signature to feed in to Acrobat for signing PDFs. There seems to still be an unreasonable amount of trust in the idea that a squiggle on paper is difficult for other people to reproduce. But then, it's never been about preventing forgery, because forgery has always been relatively simple. Signatures are just a ritual performed between honest people to help them remember that they're honest.