Need a simple end to end encrypted email solution, and for regular users to understand that solution isn’t Gmail for fax to die. The health and financial sectors are keeping fax alive, and it isn’t completely their fault.
Correct me if I’m wrong but fax isn’t end to end encrypted so how is it deemed more secure than email which also isn’t end to end encrypted (by default).
Probably a case of legislative inertia and tried-and-true practices. It’s also a thing that’s mostly limited to the US, I feel like. I want to say many other Western countries have digital systems in place (maybe not the BEST digital systems, but something better than fax).
Fax is not end-to-end encrypted. Not even sure it’s encrypted in transit. But it is also something that doesn’t rely on a third party provider storing all your data indefinitely and then losing it all in a data breach. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from hooking up to a virtual fax service that might store info on a server… but still…
I suppose it has more to do with the opportunity for a significant breach. The healthcare provider’s email system is a big target full of exploits. Fax is also HIPPAHIPAA compliant, email is not.
Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there’s one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it’s security and privacy.
Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?
It is time for the fax machine to die.
It has been time for the fax Machine to die for the last 18 years.
For the love of God somebody, please kill the fax machine.
Need a simple end to end encrypted email solution, and for regular users to understand that solution isn’t Gmail for fax to die. The health and financial sectors are keeping fax alive, and it isn’t completely their fault.
Email encryption has been a thing since '91. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Correct me if I’m wrong but fax isn’t end to end encrypted so how is it deemed more secure than email which also isn’t end to end encrypted (by default).
Probably a case of legislative inertia and tried-and-true practices. It’s also a thing that’s mostly limited to the US, I feel like. I want to say many other Western countries have digital systems in place (maybe not the BEST digital systems, but something better than fax).
Fax is not end-to-end encrypted. Not even sure it’s encrypted in transit. But it is also something that doesn’t rely on a third party provider storing all your data indefinitely and then losing it all in a data breach. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from hooking up to a virtual fax service that might store info on a server… but still…
I suppose it has more to do with the opportunity for a significant breach. The healthcare provider’s email system is a big target full of exploits. Fax is also
HIPPAHIPAA compliant, email is not.Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there’s one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it’s security and privacy.
Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?
Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.
As someone who provides customer support for software that basically turns a Windows server into a giant fax machine, I 100% agree.