• TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can sign documents with the click of a mouse on a desktop. The validity of a digital signature comes from an authenticated account, time stamps, and an encrypted key; not your finger tracing on a touchscreen.

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      1 year ago

      Not every digital signature is legally binding, I’m afraid.

      In my country, there are 3 types of it. A simple one (login/password), unqualified (encrypted series of numbers), and qualified (same as unqualified, but encrypted using certified means by government). The last two are stored on a physical drive.

      The higher the grade, the more legal power the signature holds.

      When signing it by hand from a tablet it’s the same as signing it personally where I live. Which, unlike qualified digital signature, can be used for any document.

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        That’s actually something we need to get handled as a society. Unfortunately the justice system still runs on fax machines so we’re basically not viable as a species.

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          On the government timescale, these devices blinked into existence 10 minutes ago. I’m just glad I can digitally submit my taxes

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                What? The components are the same and work exactly the same way, maybe on just less power and different thermal configurations on laptops. Meanwhile phones use a different CPU architecture (at least, I don’t know the specifics of the rest), and a completely different OS structure. Meanwhile laptops use the exact same operating systems as desktops.

                The same software will work the same in a desktop vs a PC, but that is not the case between a pc and a phone. It could in principle, because they are capable of the same things, but in practice it needs a rewrite, and so a lot of software doesn’t exist on phones.

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                  Apple’s putting its own chips - the same chips - in both its MacBook and iPad product lines. Their iOS also shares significant architecture with macOS, and is basically a derivative thereof.

                  Meanwhile, my tablet is running Windows 10 on its Intel i7 CPU.

      • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        SkyeStarfell already said it more politely than I was going to, but you can also sign things from phones. The point was that it doesn’t have to be a written signature so the tablet medium provides no benefit.