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Most government shit regardless of country is using outdated as fuck tech. Budgets don’t work like the open market. There is no such thing as ROI for a government.
Don’t a lot of offices / businesses in Japan still use fax machines and such on the daily? (Or am I dumb?), I don’t really find this suprising, despite the fact we associate Japan with high tech, most places take an “if its not broken don’t fix it” attitude to tech and tend to use a lot tech of what is considered obsolete because it still works for their needs.
I mean half the global banking sits a top a layer of COBOL because no one dares feck with it, it works and it would probably cost way to much to update to a more modern language, they just apply the occasional sacred oils and incantations to the machine god and prey that it does not explode.
Or maybe they just really liked that thunky noise when poping one in, it is pretty satisfing /s
In Canada I think fax machines are still prevalent. Let’s get rid of those insecure devices too.
It’s privacy regs. Fax machines are as insecure as ever, and that’s the point: it doesn’t get worse while ciphers retire constantly. So while this years it’s SHAx that dies, fucking fax machines’ threat is statically bad.
Reliably bad is reliable, I guess.
I say this while having been one of those people who got a raft of fax spam from a clinic who flubbed the numbers.
Presumably there was a crazy second hand market if they went out of production in 2011?
Or they just stocked up beforehand knowing it was coming to an end.
