On 1/30/2011 5:09 AM, M.L. wrote:


I think we (TINW) are placating the people who refuse to join the
21st century. They are lazy, they want a printed copy delivered
right to their desk without having to press a button. Then, if
something is not to their liking, the onus of modifying it and
re-transmitting it falls on the sender.

My cousin works for a financial investment advisor. They are not allowed
to email anything with private information on it, such as a client's SS
number, contract number and so on.
http://www.finra.org/

How is faxing supposed to be safer?

Because 'that's the way they've always done it', and the new technology
scares them.

Fret not- another few years, when they have back-doored their way into
National ID Card, it will have PKI on it, and we will all be able to
send and receive encrypted documents, just like the government does.

'Real-ID' drivers licenses, and now the 'voluntary' on-line ID Obama is
proposing- soon somebody will say 'hey, wouldn't it be convenient if we
put both of those on one card?' They couldn't sell the public on the
feds issuing everyone ID cards, but piece by piece, they are getting the
states and private industry to do it. Once the data is up in the cloud,
it really doesn't matter who issued it, or what the sign on the door says.

Twenty years from now, everyone will have something that amounts to
National ID (and probably a universal credit card, as well), and we will
have paid to get it, and we won't think there is anything strange about
it. I hate it, but I'm resigned to it. Such are the things I ponder as I
wait in line behind 3 people in a row charging a cup of coffee.

--
aem sends...