Everyone is gonna love me for this post. Nah, who am I kidding? It never works that way. First off, I am not some rich prince from a faraway land with a shady accountant. I’m not sure where I should put it on YouTube, but we all have to have a little talk, a little talk about digital signatures. It definitely doesn’t belong on a gardening channel, but it’s kinda in that grey space of maybe preparedness. It’ll work there some time before we all become Amish. I’m going to start with a list of questions, cuz everybody loves a good survey:
- Are you willing to give up anonymity, which is a false assurance anyway, in order to prevent anyone/anything from ever pretending to be you?
- If you do want to be anonymous, are you disciplined enough to always remain anonymous with a persona similar to method acting?
- Are you willing to remove all proxies in your life? As an example, your personal assistants and media communications specialists can never pretend to be you. They would need to report what you are doing in the 3rd person again. No helpers commenting as you for you, either. You don’t get it both ways.
If these steps are willing to be agreed to, I can provide the information/consultation you need to learn how to confidently sign your messages, as yourself and the recipient will never suspect you are an impersonator, imposter, or scammer ever again.
Let’s open this up to discussion in email. My promise is no autoresponses, maybe a little bit of a wait for an email like the old days before instant messaging, but I will get back to you. I want to explore the idea of consulting for this important topic so we can give the crappy bot farmers are run for their money and hopefully keep this real. I’m going to start this process with my gmail account (mike.schoon@gmail.com) with the word “signature” in the subject because it has a better filter and I might be asking for trouble here. I just want to know what you guys and gals think about pushing back a little on this runaway AI roller coaster. To quote Michael Collins, “Our only weapon is our refusal.”
