Fax machines. Phone lines are pretty private, and sending a fax is usually more secure than emailing something, especially if someone else manages your email.
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If someone is 1900 miles west of you, they will be in (almost) your exact same physical location after a short time (about two hours). If someone is 1900 miles south of you, they won’t. So it depends on the cardinal directionality.
That being said, 1900 miles isn’t that far relative to the circumference of the earth (~25,000 miles), so someone 1900 miles south of you would see mostly the same sky. You’d each see some stars the other couldn’t see, but only near the horizon. About 85% of the sky would be the same (if you could see perfectly to every part of the horizon).
I feel like First Blood is not only a good movie but a glimpse into how traumatized veterans were neglected by the US government and stigmatized by the general population. With the current administration shitting on veterans left and right, they’re definitely keeping that tradition alive, and the movie has become a lot more relevant because of it.
It sounds like they’re just encrypting it twice (once with each algorithm), but I could be wrong.
I am a Californian. My flag is the flag of the California Republic.
Unfortunately, my state sees fit to subsidize a bunch of conservative states that otherwise would have failed already.
As he always does.
“When he said DEI, I thought that was code for black people.” -Some white guy, probably
I take the train to games. For some reason, drunk driving isn’t really that big a deal in the US, even though it kills so many people. A lot of people have multiple DUIs, because the state just won’t take people’s licenses away. I’m of the mindset that if you get caught driving drunk, you should lose your license for at least five years. And if you do it again, you should lose it permanently.
You look amazing! I took a look at your older progress pics, and wow, your progress is incredible!
It is an absurd idea. Obama just assumed that less than 25% of the country is actually mentally ill enough to not think that.
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Having to physically wire tap the phone line is a lot more difficult and requires local bad actors. Email’s exposure to the internet makes it easier to hack. Yes, email can be encrypted, but if your server is compromised, that doesn’t matter. End to end encryption for email is much harder, and isn’t really used by any institutions (and usually can’t be because of data retention regulations), so the server has complete access to the unencrypted email in almost all cases. Compromising a fax machine that isn’t connected to the internet is a lot harder.
Not all faxes go through VoIP. Your everyday home fax machine probably uses VoIP, because having a landline installed in your home is stupid expensive and unnecessary, but faxes in institutions probably use the PSTN. These institutions most likely need landlines anyway, so having a dedicated fax line makes a lot more sense.
And if a fax goes through VoIP, it’ll be encrypted the same way email is. So in that case, it’s the same level of security as email, which is to say, easier to compromise. At least you can’t trick someone into clicking a link in a fax though.