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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
VM are to move their telephony service over to VOIP
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Awww. Don't really see the point apart from business use. According to a customer service rep 1 or 2 years ago, no one uses their landlines.
What happens to emergency calls in power cuts? What happens to faxing?
Faxing still receives a lot of business use (e.g. for contracts that have to be signed) because it's pretty much fully trustworthy. You know who the sender is and setting up a MiTM attack to modify a document in transit is fairly difficult over fax. We can talk encryption all day, but every form of digital encryption will be cracked fairly easily at some point. The security of faxing comes from the design of the (already huge) telephone network, being fairly closed off, rigid and noninteractive unlike computer networks.
More info if you're interested:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/30...d-the-fax.html