<rant>
Oh, right, background checks. That's why I stopped being a Cub Scout
leader, volunteering with my kids choir group, etc., the assumption that any
guy who volunteers to work with kids must be a pervert or prove otherwise.
That and the helicopter parents who feared that the little Cub Scouts would
experience something dangerous like how to care for a pocket knife or use a
soldering iron or a tour of the village police department and jail.
Meanwhile Dennis Rader the BTK killer was an ADT alarm installer, Cub Scout
leader, and a deacon of his church.
But those background checks make the lawyers happy.
</rant>
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke via Af
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Efax and Security
The reason that It popped into my head is that I'm working with running
background checks for people that work with the kids at our church. I
have physical copies of the forms people filled out with all kinds of
personal information, so I was like, I'll just scan them and email them
into the church office for processing. Then I decided that sending info
like that via email probably wasn't a good idea, so I should fax them.
Then I realized that it's basically the same thing since all my faxing
is through email.
So that got me thinking, how would I know if my personal information is
just being sent out via a plain email on the receiving side? If
something were to happen, do we have have any liability for not making
it 'secure' or do we need to be telling customers up front that the
security is only as good as email, and have them sign a wavier that we
don't get sued if their email is hacked and peoples identities are stolen?
On 10/6/2014 9:33 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
I use Ring Central for eFAX, and you can send from an application on your
computer and read messages via a password protected HTTPS site. So you
don't have to use email. You could, for example, have an email alert you
to a FAX but not attach a PDF. I just have it email the PDF though. Who
cares if someone sees the junk FAX messages I get for cruises and roofing.
I don't think I've received a real FAX in 3 years. Maybe 2-3 times a year
someone wants me to send them a FAX, but at their end I assume it is going
to an actual FAX machine. Unless it is going to the shared multifunction
copier and everyone sees it or picks it up by mistake. I think the
illusion that FAX is secure is just that, an illusion.
There also appear to be secure eFAX solutions that are probably more
secure than traditional FAX machines:
http://enterprise.efax.com/online-fax-services/secure-fax
-----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke via Af
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:11 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] Efax and Security
So I'm asking the question before one of my customers asks it of me.
Faxing has always been a "secure" transport medium, someone could
intercept your fax only if they had a wiretap running on your phone
line. With Efax services where everything is done via Email (I use the
Voip Innovations Efax Service), are there more security concerns/risks
since everything is just emailed in the clear? We've always told
people, don't put your SS# or CC# in an email, but if they go to fax a
credit app or a payment authorization slip through the email to fax
service, isn't that the same thing? I know someone is going to bring
this up one day, and I want to make sure I have an answer ready to go
for them.
Nate
