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Why isn't there an end-to-end encryption standard for email so that we can get rid of fax machines? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MrFagtron9000@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 5 points 1 year ago

90% of email sent today is encrypted between servers but even if it’s not, it’s probably 1000x harder to intercept an email than a fax.

You could impersonate a telephone company worker, twist a speaker to a phone line, and literally record the noise with your phone to get a reproducible fax image.

Email is going to be a lot harder. A lot.

There’s barely any analog phone lines anymore anyway so you could say that probably made fax more secure, but that has nothing to do with fax being inherently secure. It’s the opposite of that.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love how people think it's SO easy to go mission impossible and get access to phone lines. Or more to the point a SPECIFIC phone line... Having spent a fair amount of time in commerical buildings wiring closets. Doctor fubar's fax line isn't label as such...

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