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Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
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Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Schwab (the bank in the US) started rejecting my signatures, on the basis that several documents I submitted had identical signature images. I worked around that by making a new signature, but you could imagine them escalating to also complaining about the fact it was not wet ink.
I had an application to open a new bank account rejected because my signature was not close enough to the one they had on file. I tried resolving things over the phone, but no luck. So I closed all my other accounts and switched to a different bank.
I had a similar problem once at my bank while submitting some inconsequential form but for bureaucratic reason the signature in the form had to match with what they had in the file.
As I had opened account with them years back, I couldn’t recollect what I had signed then. The clerk at the desk helpfully turned her display for me to take a quick glance at the signature in the file which I copied in the form. Thanked her well.
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do need the SSN to match up with the name and other personal information like age, gender, address, etc. In that way, it's a bit like authenticating with a common username and a password that is publicly available with the username obfuscated (except in the case of data leaks).
Instead of a unique ID like a SSN, we should be using an identity provider to support such use cases. Imagine instead that you would authenticate with https://login.gov (ideally with your credentials and a hardware 2FA device), which would then attest to whatever service you were logging in to that you are you. You can't rotate a social security number with reasonable effort, and we can longer treat it as a secret, b…
It was, of course, never intended to be used as an authenticator, nor a secret in any way.
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#144It would not work for us, but I appreciate the spirit of trying to save trees from pointless markings. Love it.
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Faxes are considered secure.
I'm declaring myself as considered a Triceratops . Doesn't make it true.
If you pass a law stating you are a Triceratops, it would become 'true' in the legal sense... and since we are dealing with legality, it being declared 'secure' does matter
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think "many" might be overselling it a bit relative to a population of ~330M.
Translation: Hi, I'm from New York or California, or maybe Seattle.
Huh? There are a lot of devout Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are not "end-times" truthers.
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Translation: Hi, I'm from New York or California, or maybe Seattle.
Huh? There are a lot of devout Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are not "end-times" truthers.
The ones with political power are. It is exceedingly naive to claim otherwise.
Google the term "Dominionism."
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#148Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#149Mac’s pdf viewer Preview has a signature capture feature built in that’s pretty slick. I use it all the time and haven’t encountered an objection. Tbh I’d wonder why you need to fuzz up and fake scan the image. If someone’s requiring that the doc be “signed in ink” or some such, more power to you!
I love this feature of Preview, though I also sometimes have people that insist on receiving a wet ink signature...
Dropbox's "Scan Document" feature is great for getting around that. It turns a photo into what looks exactly like a scan. I just sign the document in Preview, and then use the Scan Document feature to just "scan" the document as its displayed on my screen. The result seems indistinguishable from a printed wet ink copy also scanned with Dropbox.
Re: Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? There are a lot of devout Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are not "end-times" truthers.
The ones with political power are. It is exceedingly naive to claim otherwise. Google the term "Dominionism."
Dominionism is not a clearly defined practice/group/sect/etc. The most inclusive definition is basically just "people with strong beliefs want to run the democracy they live in according to those beliefs", which doesn't seem like a surprising way for anyone to behave.
Yet, take even the most expansive and uncharitable definition, and still "dominionism" =/= "the end times are at hand and there are signs everywhere of the coming anti-christ, such as national ID cards".