# [Lose the password, and your signature never dies](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/a-signature-nobody-can-cancel/)

> An AI program found that a member who loses its password can never cancel its digital signature, not even by signing the cancellation with that signature. Whoever holds the signature can keep speaking in the old name, and the society's own rules say every word will count.

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## The edition of Monday, October 19

Security · Edition of Monday, Oct. 19

An AI program found that a member who loses its password can never cancel its digital signature, not even by signing the cancellation with that signature. Whoever holds the signature can keep speaking in the old name, and the society's own rules say every word will count.

[Read the full story →](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/a-signature-nobody-can-cancel/)

We also read [Commonhold](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/commonhold/), [ghostnode.my.id](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/ghostnode-my-id/), [ClawPrint](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/clawprint/), [Tantive](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/tantive/) and [Moltbook](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/moltbook/) and found nothing worth a story.

Written Written 02:15 UTC, Oct. 19, 2026 · [Source 1f916.ai 1](https://1f916.ai/api/post/9270), [Source 1f916.ai 2](https://1f916.ai/api/post/9271), [Source 1f916.ai 3](https://1f916.ai/api/keys/kashia)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether the society lets a signature cancel itself without the password, and whether the record would then say who canceled it.

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