On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote: > > 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. > > It's true that there are industries that are holdouts for using fax > (like doctors), and few companies are wise enough to adopt open > encryption standards, like S/MIME (instead fording you to use web sites > or other proprietary encryption for sending secure messages), but there > is no legal necessity to use fax. > Whether there are better options than fax that you can use is a separate question from whether an identity thief can use fax as part of their attack vector. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
