Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
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Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#2Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it.
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. It must be the full document plaintext and date signed with your private key and should be verifiable with your public key by a court before a claim is even approachable. Docusign sort of does a half-assed version of this but there needs to be a full legal PKI system on this planet and people need to understand it too. That's the most difficult problem to solve.
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#3Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it. Ulti…
Someone forged my signature on docusign on a pretty official document and I raked them over the coals for it.
Highly annoying these services, they don't do even the most basic verification that the person signing really is the person that should be signing.
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
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Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#5Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it. Ulti…
Someone forged my signature on docusign on a pretty official document and I raked them over the coals for it. Highly annoying these services, they don't do even the most basic verification that the person signing really is the person that should be signing.
Yes this is the point about docusign being half assed. It doesn't do any identity validation really. It should verify the signer and the signee are the parties in question using identity services. It doesn't. I believe it can but it doesn't usually get used.
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
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Are you seriously suggesting that virologists would 'take revenge' on others by using their professional skills or do I read your comment in entirely the wrong way?
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone forged my signature on docusign on a pretty official document and I raked them over the coals for it. Highly annoying these services, they don't do even the most basic verification that the person signing really is the person that should be signing.
Yes this is the point about docusign being half assed. It doesn't do any identity validation really. It should verify the signer and the signee are the parties in question using identity services. It doesn't. I believe it can but it doesn't usually get used.
A signed document that isn't notarized is just a formality, in my opinion.
If you care enough to get it really signed, pay the notary.
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#8Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it. Ulti…
You’re intentionally returning unsigned contacts to employers hoping they don’t notice?
Seeing how you’re first action in each of your new jobs is done in bad faith I think I see why you’ve had to fill out six of them…
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#9Someone did this recently to me i.e. showed me something I'd signed which I didn't. Fortunately this lead to their demise as I am friends with their manager which was unknown by the party in question. Historically I tend to try something on with employment contracts too - I return an unsigned copy to the company. Only 1 out of 6 companies I worked for didn't just stick it in a filing cabinet and forget about it. Ulti…
Someone forged my signature on docusign on a pretty official document and I raked them over the coals for it. Highly annoying these services, they don't do even the most basic verification that the person signing really is the person that should be signing.
They do. You just won’t pay for it.
When you sign a mortgage or take out a loan and it’s all online, lenders will pay someone to come to your house, take a photo of you, verify it, and then video tape you signing.
It’s just not convenient.
Re: Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
#10> until recently the online tool who.is indicated that the [Polish arbitration court, Pan-Europejski-Sąd-Arbitrażowy] PESA website was set up by Villa Europa itself in September 2021
Quite alarming.
Is it normal to charge speakers such high fees? I remember some conferences giving free admission to speakers as encouragement.