We have decades of internal reports on film that we’d like to make accessible and searchable. We don’t do it with new documents, but we have a huge backlog.
I think the most useful thing about faxes, security-wise, is that in their basic form they require zero digital storage of the image being sent. The only record on either side of the transmission is a piece of paper.*
Contrast that with email, which is store-and-forward by design, and now you have to put in effort to ensure both the sending and receiving email providers delete the message in a timely manner.
* obviously you can add store-and-forward behavior to either fax machine, but it's not the default.
We have decades of internal reports on film that we’d like to make accessible and searchable. We don’t do it with new documents, but we have a huge backlog.
Fax is still hard to hack, so some organizations have kept it alive for security.
I think the most useful thing about faxes, security-wise, is that in their basic form they require zero digital storage of the image being sent. The only record on either side of the transmission is a piece of paper.*
Contrast that with email, which is store-and-forward by design, and now you have to put in effort to ensure both the sending and receiving email providers delete the message in a timely manner.
* obviously you can add store-and-forward behavior to either fax machine, but it's not the default.