Re: [privacy] Nevada Law Mandates Encryption of Electronically-Transmitted Personal Information

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:34:43 CDT, Brian Loe said:

> How about disallowing the use of a fax machine to transmit personal
> information? Too low-tech of a solution for you?

Go ahead and try to get that to actually fly.

> The company I used to work for once spent a week faxing prescription
> information to a bank. That same company spent a day calling another
> bank to try and keep them from continuing to fax personal financial
> information to them. Faxes suck and they shouldn't be used.

And if it was encrypted on the wire, it would *still* have been faxing
*encrypted* perscription info that then gets printed out in plaintext to a
bank, and spending a day calling another bank to make them stop faxing
*encrypted* personal info that then gets printed out in plaintext.

The problem isn't on the wire, the problem is at the *endpoints*.  Changing
the on-wire representation doesn't fix the endpoints.

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