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Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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On 07/07/2024 01:54, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Intercepting a fax is more difficult, but not impossible. But the
> skill it takes to intercept an email is generally beyond that of the
> average criminal anyway; it's not REALLY a threat unless you are
> facing off against state-actors or the payoff is in the hundreds of
> millions of dollars range (in which case, you're not going to be
> depending on just the security of a fax or email to seal the deal
> anyway).

One of the advantages of faxes is they have much less of a digital 
footprint than e-mails so you don't have copies of them lying about (at 
least with older faxes) on different servers that can end up in a data 
breach. That advantage has really disappeared though with how easy it is 
now set-up end-to-end secure communications.

The state actors part does play a role as when we where abroad we worked 
on the premise, due to the countries we tended to deal with, that if you 
use the hotel phone it's been listened to and any meetings likewise.

Some of the reluctance does seem to stem from paper secure, e-mail 
insecure though. So recently my better half had to print a document out, 
sign and scan it and then e-mail it back. What's the point in that?

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-07-03 18:25 -0700
  Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> - 2024-07-04 12:58 +0200
    Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 11:06 -0400
      Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 12:45 +0200
        Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 20:54 -0400
          Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-07 08:35 +0100
            Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-07-14 23:14 +0300
              Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-15 14:29 +0100
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-07-15 07:48 -0700
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 13:29 -0500
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-21 11:10 +0100
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 13:27 -0500

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