It's as if the last 30 years of technical evolution never happened and we are back at faxing signed forms and for extra security and applying triple rot-13 to guarantee no unauthorized access.

Yeah the big tech companies want to destroy the ecosystem of opportunity they benefited from, in order to protect their power. If it means a world with more needless bullshit for everyone, so be it

that can't be true because nothing would stop them from taking a screencap and then photoshopping it over a different picture

Or just displaying whatever graphic they want full screen on a phone and taking a photo of that.