[privacy] Nevada Law Mandates Encryption of Electronically-Transmitted Personal Information

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:05:57 CDT, Brian Loe said:
> Why the exception of facsimile? Where I worked before, in the medical
> information industry, the fax was the focus of many HIPAA violation
> investigations!

Go check your office fax machine.  Does it support SSL?  If not, are you
ready to buy a new one?  And how many people use a fax that's hanging off
the *handset* end of a wireless phone anyhow?

Let's face it - requiring forklift upgrades of every single fax machine in
the state to require encryption, to solve a mostly non-existent problem
(the sniffing of fax transmissions in transit) is pretty much a non-starter.
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