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The security solution was probably that the user had to type the account's PIN, and that it uses the phone line instead of the Internet. It's from 1995 (check t
by cesarb 7y ago
The security solution was probably that the user had to type the account's PIN, and that it uses the phone line instead of the Internet. It's from 1995 (check the date of the Folha de São Paulo article above), not using encryption at all was very common back then; and even today, phone lines are still considered reliable enough that one can type the account PIN on it without any encryption (for instance: if I want to solve any issue with my credit card through the phone, I must type the full number on the card and the credit card PIN before the URA will connect me to an operator).
- flatiron 7y agoFaxes are unencrypted and send medical crap all the time today.
- shakna 7y agoMost fax machines today aren't actually sending faxes - they're sending emails, using SSL.
- wolrah 7y agoAs someone who works in the telecom industry and has to deal with faxes in medical facilities all the time, no they're not. I fucking wish they were. I beg people to use e-fax solutions if they insist on using fax at all, but there are so many damn human macros out there who learned how to do something one way and totally break down if you try to make them do something different. Annoyingly while most modern fax machines are also network printers and support email in both directions, the majority do not provide any way to configure a mapping so that a user can type in a number like a normal fax machine and the machine will convert it to the required email format for an e-fax service. This would be so easy and solve so many problems.
- flatiron 7y agoSSL e-mail isn't ETE though