Don't tell me that public Internet e-mail is considered a suitable and
safe medium for transferring confidential personal documents, like
financial and medical information? That's pretty scary.
If an insurance company or a bank asked me to e-mail them something
containing personal information (without at least using something like
crypt with a long key to encapsulate it... and no, a ZIP with a password
isn't adequate!) I would drop them in a hearbeat... I'd even be wary if
they had an online document server to upload into.
Consider the path of an e-mail. The sender's client machine, their\
ISP's mail server, any intermediate transfer agents (pretty much zero
these days) and the destination mail server (which may be another ISP's
mail server). The mail is stored (at least temporarily) in all of these
places. If the sender or the recipient (or any of the systems in the
path) use a clown-based storage/backup or hosting e.g.
onedrive/icloud/amazon, a copy lives there ready for harvest. As we have
seen, the question is not 'IF', but 'WHEN' the compromise will occur.
davidt
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:00:02PM -0700, Moose wrote:
> On 3/25/2017 10:58 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > What???s a fax machine?
>
> Exactly!
>
> And yet, that's exactly how the rep of the "Restaurant that Broke Carol's
> Ankle" asked me to send medical and cost info.
> Also the travel interruption insurance from Citi/AA asked for faxes.
>
> I guess I could have bought a fax modem. (I can't believe there isn't one
> around here somewhere, but where?) Then I
> could print out the eReceipts, etc., and scan them to fax . . .
>
> What I did do with the electronic only data was open them in Chrome, which
> has a print to PDF function, then pull them
> and scanned paper together into larger PDFs.
>
> I do still have a free service that gives me a number at which I may be
> faxed, and they send me an eCopy. Haven't needed
> it in years.
>
> Fax Free Zone Moose
>
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