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We ignored the signs. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

52k modems where cool but fax machines.... fuck fax machines. If you ever dialed one by accident you know what I mean.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Does anyone still use fax machines?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm from Germany. German bureaucrats love fax machines

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  • [–] 2 points 56 minutes ago

    That's usually because regulations were made that you have to use a fax, so that's what they still do. I heard that this was because you can correlate phone records to the date and time on the fax to prove who sent it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I guess that checks out.

    I bet you could make lots of money introducing them to the copy machines that can also automatically scan and email documents…

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Ironically that won't help. Email is unencrypted and you're not allowed to send "sensible data" over it as it would be violating the GDPR.

    On the other side you're technically not allowed to use a fax machine for that either as the recipient might forward faxes to an email inbox and that'd be unencrypted.

    But nobody talks about fax being unencrypted either... Also the argument for fax is that POTS is a direct connection between two fax machines while the internet wouldn't be and were easier to eavesdrop on. Since everything is SIP nowadays,... But I don't know what they're thinking besides "we've done that for all those years why wouldn't it work now?"

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  • [–] 2 points 53 minutes ago

    It’s important to note that fax machines aren’t point-to-point either. Your data is still passing through someone else’s switches (probably fewer hops, mind.) and then there’s the physical security on the other end to wonder about.

    The last fax I saw was in high school and it was left out for any one to grab documents from. (Well. Inside the school library right near the librarians desk.)(she had a somewhat unearned reputation for being terrifying, so, you’re mileage might carry there.)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago*

    Or worse, get dialed up yourself by a faxmachine with a wrong number in its memory.
    It will try. And try. And try.
    And at some point, you will just shut down your phone and hope it is over soon when the remote side finally cancels the unsuccessful sending operation.

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