Sending fax

[DaveB]

If you are using genuine fax machines connected to the PSTN network then the real issue is who picks it up at the other end and making sure you dial the right number. Intercepting a traditional analogue fax transmission is actually pretty hard and requires access to phone cabinets and specialist knowledge.

If you use an email to fax service or a web based fax service then you are at the mercy of the service provider, even if they use HTTPS or other encryption to transmit from you to them, potentially any of their admins have access to your info.

[northernladuk]

Ahh I remember the days of no passes, everyone just coming and going. Bloke in overalls walks in and says where is the fax machine he's going to repair it so we point to it. About an hour later someone spots the fax machine has gone.

Same bloke did nearly every business on the industrial estate. Ah those were the days.

[SimonMac]

Last time I used a fax I was bored and looped a page to feed back into itself to try and waste the recipients paper

[SueEllen]

As a certain unnamed bank prefers some instructions via fax I am looking for the least painful way of doing so.

Last time I had to send a fax I was banking with HSBC and at a client site. There were no fax machines on site.....

[PerfectStorm]

One of the more enlightening aspects of my early career was finding a printout of staff salaries on the office printer. Had no idea that the rates some people were on were even achievable

[BrilloPad]

The number of people that mis dial and send the sensitive fax to the wrong fax machine.

In a big co I worked at in the late 80's the US management sent a fax detailing mass UK redundancies to the general photocopying area instead of the MD's office.

Some staff then banged on the MD's door and he of course knew nothing of this instruction.

I was once(1991?) sent a fax detailing cash delivery instructions.

Around the same time, a senior person in a group of 30 listed what the 30 were paid and what they were worth(in an attempt to show he was grossly underpaid). Then left it on the printer. He was not too popular after that.

[DimPrawn]

The number of people that mis dial and send the sensitive fax to the wrong fax machine.

In a big co I worked at in the late 80's the US management sent a fax detailing mass UK redundancies to the general photocopying area instead of the MD's office.

Some staff then banged on the MD's door and he of course knew nothing of this instruction.

[NotAllThere]

...My main concern is that by nature the information faxed is highly sensitive.

Fax is pretty secure. The CEO of Sony often sends very sensitive information by fax, since the December 2014 hack.

[northernladuk]

Here you go...

How to Send a Fax from a Computer, Fax Machine, or Online | Fax Authority

MODS : This thread is in the wrong area. Can we move it to 1980 please. Thanks

[zazou]

As a certain unnamed bank prefers some instructions via fax I am looking for the least painful way of doing so.
What do members here use or recommend?

My main concern is that by nature the information faxed is highly sensitive.