According to former US and Japanese officials, the NSA discovered in the fall of 2020 that the PRC had persistent access to Japanese Defense Networks.

This prompted a bilateral engagement to enhance Japanese Network security.

Kind of scary to think about all the state hacking going on that hasn’t yet been revealed.

    • Norah - She/They
      12•1 year ago

      While it isn’t ubiquitous here in Australia by any means, fax still occupies some weird areas of law that make it common. When my doctor sends a referral it is almost always via fax, because email isn’t legal. Apparently, owning a phone number is more proof than owning an email address?

      What’s hilarious is that most medical providers use fax-over-VoIP (yes, that’s apparently the term) anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • the_weez
          3•1 year ago

          Nothing to do with security. Everything to do with olds not wanting to learn anything new. I had a client, a doctor, do early retirement instead of move his paper files into and EMR system. Because he didn’t want to learn it. Kind of like appointing a boomer with zero IT experience to the head of cybersecurity. Any country that is short sighted enough to pull that shit deserves to have their networks wrecked.