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How is it secure though? It’s unencrypted!
by colejohnson66 7y ago
How is it secure though? It’s unencrypted!
- detaro 7y agoIt's considered secure by the law (probably because historically the phone network was considered mostly secure). Doesn't matter if it isn't really until the law changes or some court overthrows it.
- netsharc 7y agoSomehow institutions are still pretending the emperor is wearing the nicest looking clothes, they're pretending fax is secure from "photoshopping"/data tampering.
- uranium 7y agoIt's point-to-point. Unless someone is tapping your phone line, or you dial the wrong number, where's the insecurity? Contrast that with email, which goes through any number of emails, sits in queues, gets backed up, etc. Of course some of the time you're actually faxing a fax-to-email gateway, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago> where's the insecurity? All of the other security issues aside, how about simply walking over to the unprotected fax machine and leaving with a stack of "private" records? Not sure you want to die on the hill of defending fax security.
- ballenf 7y agoAgain the threat vector is the people within physical vicinity. People who would then be subject to trespassing or theft charges. And likely caught on camera. Versus the entire world on the internet. Yeah, I'll take fax security over normal email security, thanks.
- Spivak 7y agoBut the current standard for normal email security is TLS at every leg from inbox to inbox? I mean I get the dream of not having the consider the network as an adversarial entity but surely they're about the same?