That’s the reason we have to still use fax machines right?

I know there are ways to do encryption like PGP on your message directly or I think email sent over TLS? But that isn’t the default right and that’s why I can’t send a picture of my license to the insurance company directly over email?

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    1 year ago

    It’s kind of true. But so many places are replacing physical fax lines with VOIP or even just automatically sending the fax to email via a copier, it’s hardly more secure in my experience

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      A lot of VOIP is local. So a phone line carries the signal to the office building, and a modem converts it to be emailed or whatever. At least in secure places like in healthcare or finance. On the consumer side, VOIP that you get from say a cable company, also doesn’t travel over the internet. It travels on the same local lines to the cable company, but from there it takes a different route. True the middle might still be digital, but it’s not using internet infrastructure. That would be a waste because there’s no need to be able to send that signal to any given device on the internet. There are a lot fewer landline phone numbers than internet connected devices.