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RAIN 07/05: John Hancock and E-sigs



What would the Declaration of Independence look like if John Hancock had used 
an electronic signature? MMMMM?

Reuters 6/30/00
U.S. FCC probing possibility of stolen documents
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000630/13/media-fcc-investigation

by Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission's inspector 
general is investigating charges that documents containing non-public 
information may have been stolen from the agency, FCC Chairman William 
Kennard said Friday. 
"I'm particularly concerned about instances in which we've heard from 
reporters that non-public commission documents have been stolen from this 
agency," Kennard said during a news conference. 
He also said that, during the federal regulator's review of AT&T Corp.'s 
acquisition of the cable company MediaOne Group Inc., "we got information 
that a draft document had gotten outside the agency and into the hands of 
people who were appearing before the agency and reporters." 



Business Wire 6/29/00
Digital Signatures alone do not replace the act of signing
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000629/silanis-technology

MONTREAL (BUSINESS WIRE) - Digital signature technology won't allow people to 
duplicate a paper-based signing act on-line. Only electronic signatures do, 
Silanis Technology Inc. President Tommy Petrogiannis announced today. 
"There's a lot of confusion in the market today regarding the capabilities of 
these two technologies," said Petrogiannis, a developer of electronic 
approval management solutions. "Contrary to what its name may suggest, a 
digital signature doesn't contain a visual image of a person's handwritten 
signature, nor does it secure communications beyond point to point 
transactions." 



Information Week 7/3/00
E-Signatures: Ties that bind
The Electronic Signatures Act should make it cheaper, faster, and easier to 
conduct E-business
http://www.informationweek.com/793/esign.htm

by George V. Hulme
With a few strokes of the Presidential pen--and the symbolic use of a smart 
card--electronic signatures have gained the same legal status as those 
written in ink on paper. The Electronic Signatures in Global and National 
Commerce Act, signed by President Clinton on June 30, could make it easier, 
faster, and less expensive to conduct business online. 
Challenges remain before companies can reap the full benefits of 
E-signatures. Businesses have to decide how to secure such transactions and 
retool online applications to accept and store them. But no one doubts that 
in the coming years, more businesses and consumers will be signing legal 
documents on the digital line. 


Foster’s Daily Democrat 7/5/00
Fireworks continue over copy of Declaration of Independence
http://www.fosters.com/news2000b/july/05/mn0705e.htm

by Michelle Emery
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — The United States declared its independence from Great 
Britain more than 200 years ago, but a battle over a copy of the document 
that surfaced in a Maine home last summer rages on.
A Pittsburgh gallery owner and a New York manuscript dealer bid $99,000 for a 
poster-sized copy of the Declaration of Independence that Massachusetts 
officials sent to North Yarmouth in 1776. The unsigned broadside is one of 
several that went to churches in the 13 colonies to get the word out; an 
auctioneer found it while preparing for an estate sale.



Bangkok Post 7/5/00
Winning the paper war is no easy task
Despite the electronic era, there will always be a need store and guard 
valuable documents
http://www.bangkokpost.net/050700/050700_Business21.html

by Cholada Ingsrisawang
A technician presses his hand-held barcode scanner against a sticker on the 
side of a cardboard box. The gadget beeps, the sound quickly lost inside the 
cavernous warehouse of Krungdhep Document Co.
The boxes are stacked from floor to ceiling, in tidy rows stretching the 
width of the room and bringing to mind a picture of a library made for giants.
Against the corrugated metal walls are pallets, forklifts and dollies, used 
to muscle each cardboard box into its appropriate resting space.



Dallas Morning News 7/4/00
The pursuit of history
Dallas boasts display of rare Declaration copy
http://dallasnews.com/metro/106167_declaration_04.html

by Kim Horner
The price of liberty has skyrocketed since Dallas obtained a copy of the 
Declaration of Independence almost 20 years ago. 
Ten Dallas business and civic leaders paid $500,000 in 1978 for a copy of the 
document known for its statements on the right to "life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness." The copy was given to the city and has been displayed 
at the library since 1982.
Last week, TV producer and political activist Norman Lear and Internet 
entrepreneur David Hayden paid nearly 15 times that much – a whopping $7.4 
million plus commissions that brought the price to $8.1 million – at a 
sothebys.com auction for another rare copy of the artifact. 

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