On 02/17/2015 04:11 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 02/17/2015 04:05 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> All the talk about solving the password problem is interesting - but >> not related to the original question - >> >> What is the most common, or most important, area that you actually >> see people communicating insecurely, that should be secured? Email >> has got to be #1, and I'm guessing Dropbox/Box/Google Drive #2. Is >> that it? Or is there more? >> > > Phone? How much personal and medical information (or passwords for > that matter) is transmitted that way? Doctor's offices still have to > use fax machines, don't they? > > Voice phone is hard to secure unless you're doing VOIP over TLS, but > even then unless you're doing end-to-end VOIP on a closed system > there's usually a few hops where it is in the clear. Unfortunately fax machines are a legal way to send information. While today many transactions are done by email, fax is the only legally recognized way to send a document. Remember that years ago the Mass. attorney general wanted to use open pgp as a way to send secure documents. But that never got very far.
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