[AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022

[Elliott Willink]

And I've been wasting time encrypting GRE tunnels all these years!!

The best part of fax in the medical field is that 95% of healthcare providers will immediately (if not automatically, hello Gofax/Efax/every fax machine less than 10 years old) digitise printed faxes back into their internet-connected and remotely accessible PAS.

Nobody will guess username doctor password blank​ though, so your pathology results are safe 🙂

Pretty much the only faxes that aren't digitised in healthcare are the "buy a timeshare" spam faxes which, somehow, still exist.

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On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 18:55 +1100, Adam Heathcote wrote:
> Whilst this is generally true, any SIP provider that isn’t using TLS
> can reconstruct the fax image with voip diagnostic software/packet
> sniffers. Whilst not an endpoint, the fax does travel through their
> systems.

I think being a SIP provider would count as "interception between the
endpoints takes a lot of specialised knowledge", not to mention an
absolute shedload of specialised equipment.

The Internet Fax Machine would obviously not have this vulnerability :-
)

Regards, K.

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