How has it taken this long? - eviltoast
  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    It’s privacy regs. Fax machines are as insecure as ever, and that’s the point: it doesn’t get worse while ciphers retire constantly. So while this years it’s SHAx that dies, fucking fax machines’ threat is statically bad.

    Reliably bad is reliable, I guess.

    I say this while having been one of those people who got a raft of fax spam from a clinic who flubbed the numbers.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      Threats understood are more easily mitigated.

      Also sometimes things like fax are used because of the laws protecting those wires