On 2026-04-07 12:43, James Knott via Talk wrote:

On 4/7/26 12:25, Howard Gibson via Talk wrote:

Hospitals and physicians like faxes.

Real technical experts!  😉

I've spent most of my career in telecom and can assure you faxes are not
secure

First off airtight security is not always worth the effort.

Hospitals, physicians and places like drug-stores tend to have relationships with the people sending the faxes so a request for 500KG of Oxycontin is likely to raise more than a few red flags.
Your doctor sending a request for a years supply of blood pressure meds is not the kind of thing that the KGB or PLA is likely to want to spend time on to hack a phone line. Real or virtual.

There are some advantages to paper.
It provides a record.
It can be easily passed around and clipped to a file or chart.
It can be annotated with things as simple as a pencil or pen.

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