Sign legal documents (almost Free) using BlockSignit.com! Don’t want to? Here’s the review!:
Great. So I decided to take this service for a test drive for reviews’ sake. It was honestly very simple as they had intended. I had to upload a PDF that could be 50 MB or smaller and was instructed to create an account which required an email address and password. Their idea is centralized and it seems to keep a database of the uploaded document along with a publicly available downloadable copy (available via a link) – its quickly and easily retrievable and it allows for distributed copies of easily signed documents.
My beefs with it are that you must use a throwaway email address in order to not totally compromise your privacy as these documents linked are now viewable to anyone across the web. That means this is a NO-GO for things like DMV applications, life insurance payment disbursements, payment remittance agreements, etc. I do see certain niche markets where this may work such as for specific user seals of approval or of verification of Terms and conditions read, I suppose. For instance, if I were certified with the Institute of electronics and electical engineers (IEEE) and wanted a quick way to share this certification, I could sign my copy as I did here: https://blocksignit.com/v/BlNSM3HTFADczvxM
After a friendly reply from one of the blocksign developers, I have come to learn and confirmed that the documents only appear to be visible to anyone because I’m logged into the account itself. The document itself confirms as a verified (but hidden) document:
I also decided to try out the mode of sending a document to multiple persons for signature gathering purposes and notice immediately that I must identify subsequent signers by email address and name – this means that the publicly facing block chain will be a target for would-be spammers and email scrapers alike. Interestingly, if I have requested multiple people to sign a document, it will not be released for public view until all persons have signed the document – that COULD work to an advantage in some situations, but more likely it will work against many in the vast majority of use cases.
This is certainly no advantage compared to Docusign, but I would imagine that the centralized location for past signed documents does make it easy to store and retrieve important past items on the cloud (so long as you securely keep the links separate from your email or dropbox or other attack vectors that could be used to gain unwanted access to your files and by proxy, your identity.)
In conclusion, I think this concept is cool if you have something that must be publicly facing and acknowledged but that its not practical to use for most applications currently.
Till next time,
Frankenmint
