It’s totally amazing. I needed to forward a somewhat sensitive document electroncially the other day. It’s amazing we, as a culture, still think faxing is secure.
Well, I could say, all things equal, faxing “may” be more secure than email. Maybe. Years ago, fax machines rode on telephone lines. Telephone lines back then were isolated from the internet. Telephone lines consisted of copper wires going from point A to point B. Maybe a microwave or satellite shot, but they didn’t interact with the internet.
NOT ANY MORE. You can bet that either the fax sending side, or the recieving side, or both sides ride a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. A network that is connected to the internet. Heck, my home telephone box, yes, I still have a home phone, plugs into a black box and conneced to the black box is an ethernet cable connected to my router. AND, I trust is so much I have that box connected to my Internet of Things (IoT) network, the items in my house that I have zero trust in.
I would say that a fax “could” be more secure than the internet as it “might” be hidden or encrypted in some form while in the VoIP. I wouldn’t count on it.
This is “Security through Obsecurity”.
– Doug