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There was some guy years and years ago who tried to see how ridiculous he could make his signature and have a store still accept it. As I recall he got to the point of drawing pictures on the receipt. Eventually he tried to buy something expensive like a TV for +1000 bucks before someone finally said something.
Of course now that search engines suck I'm having trouble finding the writeup he did.
At one time illiterate people could just mark an X. The security of a signature isn't really in it's uniqueness or it's relationship with your name. Security of a signature is down to the fact that you could to prison for forgery if you fake someone else's signature.