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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 163 points 4 days ago

"Login with your Address"

  1. Insert address
  2. Letter is send
  3. Introduce code from the letter to authenticate

Who will implement this?

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 17 points 4 days ago

Probably Italy. All institutions and many households still have a working but unused fax line in Italy (which most photocopiers still support). Many documents can only be transferred either in person or by fax.

We are not savages, we have low cost multi-gigabit optic-fiber household connections available in the majority of cities. Our bureaucracy is just anachronistic.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

Germany-Italy-Japan the Faxes-Axis remains strong.

[-] cageythree@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago
[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

USA too for a lot of shit, now that we’re an axis power I guess

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

So many of those fax lines are just email servers in a trench coat in the US though

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can't you just send official stuff via Posta elettronica certificata? I thought that was the point of these sorts of systems

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

PEC is usually not free (neither is fax, but a landline is more common than PEC). But also, I think it's not accepted everywhere. Maybe you can also use posta raccomandata. But for that you must go to the post office in person and wait in line with other 10 pensioners, and it also costs, so you are probably better off just handing the document in person.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Ah that's a shame, if they made it free (at least for communication with the state) i think it could clear up the fax situation a lot. They did this in my country and it got rid of the faxes

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 4 days ago

Sometimes banks give you a PEC address, but it's mostly for communicating with the bank, and you are paying for it as part of the bank's services.

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