We caught wind of electronic signatures making headlines locally in our Chattanooga newspaper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press. A Chattanooga man was caught scraping an image of an electronic signature from a federal judge to attempt to be released from jail early. You can read the article for yourself HERE on the Chattanooga Times Free Press' website.
This is exactly what we warn against in our Apples to Oranges: Digital Signatures vs. Electronic Signatures white paper. Electronic signatures do not have the security of a digital signature. A digital signature is embedded within the document and cannot be forged. If the document had been sent electronically from the man trying to forge the judge's e-signature, a notification would have automatically popped up when opened by Adobe Reader giving the receiver of the document a heads-up that the document had been tampered with.
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