On 27/03/2008, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, member jessejazza wrote:
If i'm going to buy something and need tosend a credit card number i use a fax as it is secure [unless you dial the wrong number which is a bit harder to do than email auto-complete].
Ahh, a false sense of security! :] What if I was to swing by the office of the company you are buying goods from and I just happen to pick up the fax when no one was looking [or they were temporarily distracted]?
Ok, so it's a very unlikely scenario, but just because you sent the fax somewhere does not mean the intended recipient will be the only one to see it. And this is also even true of email or normal land post.
Nothing is secure. Don't make that mistake again. (All systems, technological or otherwise, have weaknesses available for exploitation.)
- Srdj
All i meant by security; is that umpteen emails get lost somehow each day. Sending a fax one can be sure that it has reached its destination and can only be read by someone there. With email or post it can be intercepted! Since a fax makes a noise when it arrives it is more likely to be read than a letter or email IMO.
For example, for my classic car parts i use fax listing the items and card number at the bottom. As i know these folk the important part of the security is that it isn't intercepted on route. Anytime i can use a fax i do to save on postage... like sorting out a council tax error - i know that fax will get straight to the intended department.
james