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I liked the tractor feed on my dot matrix ... The biiiz buzz bizz buzz would drive me nuts so I set it to print and left.
At a previous job they would print out reports for archiving that would take up whole boxes of paper, THAT printer was in a "sound proof" encloser in another room.
We still use faxes and dot matrix printers in our ( otherwise modern) hospital.
How we supposed to print triplicates on regular printers? I some instances we do need triplicates, and not 3 exact same documents printed separately.
There is a stuff we do enter into computer, and there is paperwork that has to be printed and filled out per hand.
I'd rather FAX personal information than email it. If you've ever seen the output of a packet sniffer, you know that email is not secure at all.
Well, faxes are not secure either. We have faxes scattered everywhere, some go to the wrong department, some end in paper-baskets, or get misfiled, sometimes people use the blank backside to write notes.
I know a doctor who would make his office workers collect all the faxes they received during the day and use the blank site to fax out documents the next day. This was his idea of saving on paper...
I will take my coffee percolator any day. We have tried all kinds of drip coffeemakers, and they don't let the flavor come through like the percolator does. And the house smells like a coffee shop. So nice. Wristwatches are great, and while I was working, I always wore one. When I retired, I could care less about the time.
Well, faxes are not secure either. We have faxes scattered everywhere, some go to the wrong department, some end in paper-baskets, or get misfiled, sometimes people use the blank backside to write notes.
I know a doctor who would make his office workers collect all the faxes they received during the day and use the blank site to fax out documents the next day. This was his idea of saving on paper...
I routinely get efaxes from a lender with confidential client information.
I have never met the lender; they are not my clients; and the lender has yet to fix the fax number.
Whatever.
You don't think a fax can be intercepted and reconstructed?
Ask the NSA about that.
The VoIP service I use with my FAX machine encases SIP traffic in a VPN tunnel. It's not the NSA I'm worried about, but I'm satisfied that any identity thieves who get in the middle of that path aren't going to get anything useful out of my faxes.
Well, faxes are not secure either. We have faxes scattered everywhere, some go to the wrong department, some end in paper-baskets, or get misfiled, sometimes people use the blank backside to write notes.
I know a doctor who would make his office workers collect all the faxes they received during the day and use the blank site to fax out documents the next day. This was his idea of saving on paper...
That would be a liability issue on the receiver's end. If identity thieves get my information in the receiver's facility, I can sue the receiver, because I've done everything I can possibly do to get the information to the recipient in a secure fashion.
I can't be bothered to worry about what happens on a site I can't control.
Many students, doing field work, happily display their current accelerometer enabled apps on their cell phones... and they are cool, but...
Field work being what it is(12 of the last 48 hours raining... miles away from any electric source other than the vehicle whose alternator gave out putting you in this position), you rely on your trusty pocket transit and gather the needed data.
Not to mention, the calibration on lots of measurement apps is wretched. Certainly not good enough for real-life usage.
Well, faxes are not secure either. We have faxes scattered everywhere, some go to the wrong department, some end in paper-baskets, or get misfiled, sometimes people use the blank backside to write notes.
I know a doctor who would make his office workers collect all the faxes they received during the day and use the blank site to fax out documents the next day. This was his idea of saving on paper...
True.
And no one ever sends email to the wrong person so they are definitely way better for security.
Whatever.
You don't think a fax can be intercepted and reconstructed?
Ask the NSA about that.
You're right.
Someone once faxed a patient's medical results to my job. Thing was, this wasn't our client/patient. This confidential info was faxed to the wrong place(us). Besides, we were a completely different industry.
I shredded the info; faxed the cover sheet back to the other place - and noted (for their sake and ours)that they had the wrong place, and that we shredded their patient's info.
So, faxing isn't "safe", either. Really, nothing is ... Oh well.
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