On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, John Rodgers wrote:

> I guess I suffer from "Big Brother" and "1984" paranoia. And the the
> thing that really gets me lately is the apparent step-up in the use of
> digitizing signature pads. I know all about the increased efficiencies
> and all that jazz, and it is supplosed to be benign statistics info
> gathering, but "What If??" What if but if sojmeone misuses the info??

There's a lot of stuff I worry about too, but I don't really see that the
electronic signature pads are any worse than the paper signature receipts.
(Well, except that my signature ends up totally unrecognizable when I sign
on one of those digital pads, for some reason.)

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
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