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German cybersecurity is faxing with VPN (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't get people defending fax machines for the input method.

All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like "Fax-to-email", I'm sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.

The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn't have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Emails better though because with a fax machine you can only address it to the phone number, which is usually one number for the entire organization or for the entire department if it was a big company.

With email you can individually address it to the actual intended recipient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Okay, fair, but that too can be setup with my idea. Just use "fax to email" functionality.

What I was trying to say is that when people are saying "I miss fax" they don't necessarily mean the protocol (except people missing the audio modulated exchanges, which can be simulated, or otherwise adapted), they mean the steps they themselves had to do (maybe also the feedback from the machine). Maybe the certainty that the sent stuff will be seen by the first person walking by is something they want. As long as there is a choice I don't see why that should not be possible.