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What should they use instead? Email isn't secure enough. Email got not forced TLS/GPG upgrade (compared to the web's HTTPS)
It's a big and still-unsolved problem, but it's more than just TLS - need a proper set of APIs and platforms. We happen to be working on this, but it's not done yet... :-)
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.
I 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.
> 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.
More than anything, this is proof that tech industry salaries are on average _way too low_. Stop working for peanuts. Let them go back to pen and paper. Let their corporations collapse. Demand to be paid what you're all worth.