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How has it taken this long? (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's privacy regs. Fax machines are as insecure as ever, and that's the point: it doesn't get worse while ciphers retire constantly. So while this years it's SHAx that dies, fucking fax machines' threat is statically bad.

Reliably bad is reliable, I guess.

I say this while having been one of those people who got a raft of fax spam from a clinic who flubbed the numbers.

[โ€“] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Threats understood are more easily mitigated.

Also sometimes things like fax are used because of the laws protecting those wires