Comments on: Electronic Fax Security: Is it safe? http://blog.zone-x.com/2007/09/electronic-fax-efax-safety-concerns/ Giving You Answers to the Technical Issues You Encounter Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: ugid http://blog.zone-x.com/2007/09/electronic-fax-efax-safety-concerns/#comment-2 ugid Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:05:00 +0000 http://blog.zone-x.com/2007/09/electronic-fax-security-is-it-safe/#comment-2 E-mail not being secure is just one of the security issues of electronic fax.<br /><br />There's another one.<br />In traditional fax, only the sending and receiving parties have access to the fax.<br />In efax, some employees of the efax company have access to the document sent. Try contacting an efax company's customer service to inquire about, say, the quality of the pdf conversion. The customer service employee can easily pull out the pdf file and, hence, access whatever private information you have in the file. E-mail not being secure is just one of the security issues of electronic fax.

There’s another one.
In traditional fax, only the sending and receiving parties have access to the fax.
In efax, some employees of the efax company have access to the document sent. Try contacting an efax company’s customer service to inquire about, say, the quality of the pdf conversion. The customer service employee can easily pull out the pdf file and, hence, access whatever private information you have in the file.

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