Since ~2005 all EU countries have Electronic Signature legislation (1999/93/EC), later renewed as eIDAS (Regulation 910/2014).
It's 2021, companies are still scammed by fake PDF pretending to be an order by a German court, notable judiciary institution, sent with *no* digital signature at all, in a industry where these attacks are frequent 🤷
@kravietz fun fact, germany now has a separate digital communication thingy for the legal system, called "beA", that only lawyers and courts are allowed to use. since it's rather complicated and many lawyers are afraid of technology, they often send the same document over beA, fax, and mail just to be sure. also, the system claimed to have end-to-end encryption, but doesn't.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besonderes_elektronisches_Anwaltspostfach
OMG that looks very much like the nightmare solutions that Poland implemented back in ~2005 as part of the EU eSig Directive.
It was completely unusable with like ~10 incompatible solutions from different vendors, each of them with requirements like "Windows XP SP2 with ASP.NET 3.5" and still crashing frequently.
EU directive left quite a lot of choice in terms of implementation, and that was used in the worst possible way back then...
