Re: Anyone still using FAX?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:07:39 -0800, Joerg
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JosephKK wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:32:53 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If someone manages to reroute only the packets to one particular destination
it can probably be pieced together automagically. So they'd keep doing that
until something marketable pops up. Like something with a social security
number in there.
Agreed, but it takes a lot of computing resources to monitor any significant
fraction of the millions of connections that go through any given Internet
router in a given day... and of course requires access to that network in the
first place. Hence my belief that you're talking about a scheme probably not
much more likely than someone monitoring a bunch of phone lines and decoding
any FAXes that go through: Both require access to restricted resources (a
large Internet switching center vs. a large Telco switching benter), both go
through multiple "hops" to get from source to destination, neither is
encrypted, and many, many are multiplexed together simultaneously.

With the Internet you never really know which countries stuff goes
through and as we all know there are certain countries where the
restricted access is, ahem, less restrictive. A little cash under the
table makes things accessible. It isn't a coincidence that a large
portion of grand style ID theft is ultimately tracked back to certain
regions of the world. In contrast, a telco knows how stuff is routed and
(usually) avoid such hot paths.

The infrastructure stack is still mostly the other way around,
Internet runs on Telco leased lines (well, fibers really, at least in
the US).


True. But in some countries telco does not mean it's totally safe.

It is not totally safe in the US either. But that is a different
issue.

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