Faxing is growing in popularity
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Faxing is growing in popularity
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#2As long people uses faxes as printers with an attached email address I don't see them disappear anytime soon.
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#3The study (https://www.opentext.com/file_source/OpenText/en_US/PDF/open...) as sponsored by OpenText (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText) It shows growing fax usage in the segment of large companies. At the same time need for integrating fax into other systems and cloud. It sound more like OpenText will use the finding (and list of companies surveyed) in their sales process.
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#4People think it's secure, but it's worse now than ever since many faxes are now emailed as PDFs
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#5Fax machine -> fax machine : secure
And fax machines are easy to use.
Securing document exchange by email is a PITA for 99.9% users. Explain to your mother how to use PGP/GPG to encrypt the email she have to send to financial institutions, government, ... And imagine the government employee receiving the encrypted email. He will probably just delete it. :)
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#6Fax machine -> fax machine : secure And fax machines are easy to use. Securing document exchange by email is a PITA for 99.9% users. Explain to your mother how to use PGP/GPG to encrypt the email she have to send to financial institutions, government, ... And imagine the government employee receiving the encrypted email. He will probably just delete it. :)
Well, completely unencrypted, but depends on what you consider the threat to be.
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#7IT's a 0-trust system!
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#8Fax machine -> fax machine : secure And fax machines are easy to use. Securing document exchange by email is a PITA for 99.9% users. Explain to your mother how to use PGP/GPG to encrypt the email she have to send to financial institutions, government, ... And imagine the government employee receiving the encrypted email. He will probably just delete it. :)
Well, completely unencrypted, but depends on what you consider the threat to be.
I feel with you. I was shocked to learn that fax is still the default for Doctor 2 Doctor communication here in Germany.
Turns out the reason is rather simple: the law explicitly requires phone lines to be confidential in terms of eavesdropping. (You need a warrant, else it‘s illegal). While all other means of transport are not covered by this. So everyone who wants to legally cover his ass, would rather use the legally privileged, but technically wide open phone line over technically sound solutions missing such a legal framework.
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#9The IRS also only accepts faxes for sending documents directly to an agent. If you have a fax machine maybe it’s secure, but the internet services are very shady and using a local store I’m still concerned the machines store the documents in memory after sending them (not 100% sure if that’s the case but I see no reason for the manufacturers to care to wipe them).
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#10I work in healthcare and in my office we likely receive 100-200 pages of faxes everyday. Every single microbiology report in my large urban hospital prints out (including preliminary results. This includes a cover page for every single fax. It's a huge waste of paper. Luckily we are moving to Epic and all results will come through that system instead.