[Cryptography] another security vulnerability / travesty

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 11:26 AM, John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> wrote:

> On 10/01/2016 12:47 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
> > Fax is a lot harder to get at than email.
>
> Yes harder ... but wow, that's a really low bar.
> Are you claiming it is "hard enough"?
> Hard enough for what purpose?
>

Phone conversations once had legal protections that do
not apply to cell phones.   The doctors office cannot tell
if you sent the FAX from a cell phone, POTS or a copy service.

This is a case where the law was framed in one context that
does not appear to apply today.
Inside the doctors office or hospital the "FAX" may never be seen on paper
but the law makes no distinction.

The erosion of personal privacy and the expectation of privacy
is relentless. The law like HIPPA gives some expectation but
the technical reality is that the law has leaks eroding it's foundations
that are difficult to audit.

I suspect we will see more personal email servers and more
personal medical facilities not less over time.


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  T o m    M i t c h e l l
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