TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat old technology are you surprised is still in use today?message-squaremessage-square159linkfedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down11
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareWhat old technology are you surprised is still in use today?TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square159linkfedilink
minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoFax machines will never die no matter how they are mocked. It simply is the easiest way to send documents with private information and it’s fast. At least we have e-faxing now to receive documents.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoPlease don’t tell me you buy that “they can’t be hacked”. It’s pretty much on the same tier as email.
minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoNot so much they can’t be hacked, but that nobody seems to bother to.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoWell, I don’t really love that as a security philosophy. If it’s somehow not going on now it will be soon.
minus-squareBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI’ve never heard of it happening in my 20 years of faxing if that helps at all.
Fax machines will never die no matter how they are mocked. It simply is the easiest way to send documents with private information and it’s fast. At least we have e-faxing now to receive documents.
Please don’t tell me you buy that “they can’t be hacked”. It’s pretty much on the same tier as email.
Not so much they can’t be hacked, but that nobody seems to bother to.
Well, I don’t really love that as a security philosophy. If it’s somehow not going on now it will be soon.
I’ve never heard of it happening in my 20 years of faxing if that helps at all.