Question

Without the reassurance of a handwritten ink signature, there is no obvious way to verify the authorship. Alternatively, imagine that a bank receives an e-mail from a client, which instructs that all the client's funds should be transferred to a private numbered bank account in the Cayman Islands. Once again, without a handwritten signature, how does the bank know that the e-mail is really from the client? The e-mail could have been written by a criminal attempting to divert the money to his own Cayman Islands bank account. In order to develop trust on the Internet, it is essential that there is some form of reliable digital signature. –The Code Book, Simon Singh
Write three to five sentences evaluating the author’s argument. In your response, identify and evaluate the claim and whether the evidence supports the reason and the claim.

Answer 1

 The reason that protecting our information is important is so that people can be sure about who really sent them information. The evidence is a hypothetical situation about how a criminal could steal money by pretending to be someone else if encryption wasn't possible. The reason and evidence logically support the claim because they show one way that the Information Age would not be successful – people could easily steal money – if information is not protected. 

Answer 2

Answer:

According to what the author expresses in this excerpt, in order to confirm the authorship of a document, handwritten ink signatures should be present. Otherwise, there would be no reliable way of verifying the source of that document.

Explanation:

The main reason for Simon Singh to believe that is that, if we don't have a handwritten signature, we could be easily fooled by criminals who take other people's names to make us do things for their own benefit, like in the example given by the author of the bank account. I think his claim is pretty accurate and that the example given by the author supports the claim in a very logical way. I, in fact, agree with him in believing that handwritten signatures or any other way of pursuing reliability is worth the time and intention. Nothing is too much when trying to avoid fraud, and I also think it is a good practice to update the protection system every now and then to maintain our information private and secure.