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  • Fax isn’t encrypted. What keeps it alive is just inertia.

    As for why your insurance company won’t take emailed photo, that probably has more to do with whatever system your insurance is using for their backend.

    Email content can be end to end encrypted by GPG and S/MIME as well as through a few other standards. Email in transit can be (but not always is) encrypted via TLS.

    The reason encryption is not default is because (I think) of backwards compatibility. E-mail originated at a time when almost nothing electronic was ever encrypted, including the username and password you used to log into a system with. Most of the encryption we use of today has simply been “bolted on” to standards that were already in place at the time and it did take a few tries to get it right.

    When the internet was first getting started, few people, if anyone, thought it would become as invasive (possibly the wrong word) as it has become. Everyone on the net knew each other. They were friends, why would they ever need to hide anything from each other. /s

    That and the early systems couldn’t really spare the processing power for encrypting and decrypting things.





  • The Teamsters seem to go on strike as.frequently as the US has a vehicle accident involving a fatality. It’s not news at this point, it’s business as usual.

    As a truck driver myself, my only thought is, “Good, perhaps freight rates will go up again.” Otherwise, don’t care. What are they striking about this time? Not enough coffee in the break room? Vending machine out of Mt.Dew?

    Seriously though, I’ve never (knowingly) met a Teamster who wasn’t a complete and total asshole. I am sure such a creature exists, just haven’t met them yet.

    The Teamsters Union is the only Union of which I have an entirely negative view of. They make the UAW look like a bunch of really intelligent, well organized, team players.