For years, credit card companies have relied on an illegible squiggly line as the frontline of defense against credit card fraud. Customers are forced to use a pen (how retro!) to scrawl their signature on bills at restaurants and sign digitally at cash registers–as if somehow in the age of chips, PINs, biometrics, and online … Continue reading “MasterCard has finally realized that signatures are obsolete and stupid” For years, credit card companies have relied on an illegible squiggly line as the frontline of defense against credit card fraud.