On 8/27/2011 9:53 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On 8/26/2011 11:40 PM, jk_xtb...@kinz.org wrote:
Thats true for you and I and this community, but the legal community
and the medical community still rely on faxes for "security".
(Or something.... )
My understanding -- and this is incomplete information -- is that it
falls down to the legal signature. A photocopy or facsimile of a
document with a legal signature is considered to be a legal document for
record keeping purposes. A digital-only scan of that document is not.
This is a legal distinction, not a technical one.
And an absurd one in an age when a lot of faxes are sent from computers.
A fax is actually easier to forge than a digital document because of its
relatively low resolution; it's trivial to pass off a Photoshopped
document as an original fax scan. Yet another case of the law not
keeping up with technical reality.
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