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- From: dave@revcan.rct.ca (David Blackwood)
- Subject: Re: Fax with encryption?
- Organization: Revenue Canada, Taxation; Office Communications Division
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:11:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0qvFI.MtB@revcan.rct.ca>
- References: <1993Jan11.195959.19591@cc.ic.ac.uk> <C0pvqF.KBF@newsserver.technet.sg> <1993Jan12.073028.5131W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
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- We use a third party add-on encryption device all the time to protect
- our fax transmissions. Not to guard against them being read by someone
- else in the office but to guarantee that they cannot be intercepted or
- much more importantly that they are not sent to some unauthorized third
- party as a result of an operator mis-dialing the destination number.
- There are a number of such devices on the market some approved for
- commercial use and others for government use (with approval only :-).
-
- There was a much publicized case in Canada where an employment centre
- sent a list of all the unemployed people in a community to that
- community's newspaper because an operator accidently pressed the wrong
- speed disl button on their fax machine.
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- D. J. Blackwood Room 1139, 400 Cumberland Street
- Systems Integration Manager Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L8
- Office Communications Division voice: +1 613 957 9305, fax: +1 613 952 1095
- Revenue Canada, Taxation email: uunet.ca!revcan!dave, dave@revcan.rct.ca
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