12-07-03 Fraud on the Courts in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Flim-Flam, also known as Shell Game Fraud

Looking back at the entire body of evidence of fraud in electronic record systems of the courts, both in the United States and Israel, it appears that there are three main reasons that the legal profession, including the judiciary, both in the US and in Israel could not tolerate valid, certified, digital signatures on electronic legal records:

1)     The digital signature includes inherent information regarding the date that the signature was executed and integrity of the document that it is affixed to. 

2)     There is no difference between "Original" and "Copy", when it comes to digitally signed electronic records. 

3)     Valid digital signatures in valid electronic record systems would provide easy distinction between valid, authenticated court records, and simulated court records.

Therefore, had valid electronic record systems been implemented in the courts, central fields in the art of Fraud on the Court would have been eliminated, and with it, much of the skills for which attorneys are heftily paid.

On the other hand, implementation of fraudulent electronic record systems in the courts transformed the art of Fraud on the Courts, which was endemic, into a medieval pandemic.

LINKS:
[1] The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction_ Walter Benjamin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction