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Old September 12th, 2008, 03:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.fax,alt.fax
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Default email fax security

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:49:31 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

Faxing has never been secure and never could be. HIPAA had to create a giant
exception to its requirements so that medical information can continue to be
transmitted by fax.


Are you talking about phone faxing where one fax machine makes a call
to another? What security holes are there other than me entering the
wrong fax number?

In any case, I am talking about email faxing, like with MyFax.com.
Unless I encrypt the email and any attachments before sending the
email-fax, I would think that it is visible to every node along the
way, no?