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How else would they be transferred? E-mail isn't secure enough. Perhaps a partial answer to the question is, 'because the IT industry hasn't provided the world
by forapurpose 9y ago
How else would they be transferred? E-mail isn't secure enough.
Perhaps a partial answer to the question is, 'because the IT industry hasn't provided the world with a secure, widespread, public communication medium" (by public, I mean one not controlled by a private company). The IT industry gets a lot of praise, but there are a lot of gaps in performance that we have become accustomed to overlooking.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI am not sure if fax is more secure than E-mail. When I still had my machine I usually received several faxes per year with confidential information. It was always lawyers who had mistyped the fax number. And most of them used redial so they kept sending stuff until I told them they had the wrong number.
- forapurpose 9y agoThere's much more to security than misaddressed messages. Email is sent over the Internet, often in the clear, exposing it to many intermediaries, including to both business and government which use mass surveillance of email to collect data on users. Email ends up on many devices, from multiple servers to multiple endpoints (sender's and recipients laptops, phones, etc.) to backups. Email security is so hard to achieve that many security professionals have given up, and design new messaging systems such as Signal. > I am not sure if fax is more secure than E-mail However, I do agree that the difference isn't great because many fax systems, sending and receiving, utilize email anyway.
- chaz6 9y agoA common method used in the UK is EDI (electronic data interchange).