[Discuss] transmitting legal documents

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Unfortunately fax machines are a legal way to send information. While
> > today many transactions are done by email, fax is the only legally
> > recognized way to send a document.
>
> It's true that there are industries that are holdouts for using fax
> (like doctors), and few companies are wise enough to adopt open
> encryption standards, like S/MIME (instead fording you to use web sites
> or other proprietary encryption for sending secure messages), but there
> is no legal necessity to use fax.
>

Whether there are better options than fax that you can use is a separate
question from whether an identity thief can use fax as part of their attack
vector.


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