Especially with fax machines connected to phone lines, they typically were not connected to the RJ45 connection. Typically as well the fax machine is less connected to the rest of the network. A fax machine also can’t be phished like a human can be with email. It’s just HARDER to hack into a fax machine versus a computer. It’s not protected as it transmits across phone lines. If someone intercepted that screeching sound transmission and had a receiving device listening, they could read that transmission. So here’s a dirty little secret about faxing. If you depended on faxing, this was the board to have. Back in the day there was a specific fax board that was the best computer faxing board around. Slowly but surely faxing is starting to die out. On the back of the unit they even still have a plastic hole where the fax machine USED to be connected with an analog fax board, but clearly the manufacturer deems faxing with a phone line to no longer be used. That just means it has a hook into an online faxing service. So if you go shopping for a multi-function fax machine – beware of devices that include “cloud fax”. I found it fascinating that there is a hole in the back of the unit where the faxboard USEDto be. Rather it means a trial for a cloud fax service and if you want it to continue you have to pay for it. Nor does it mean a free cloud faxing service built in. When it says “Cloud fax” it does NOT mean a plain old analog fax that uses a phone line. First off when it says it’s a “Multifunction Wireless Printer with Print, Copy, Scan and Cloud Fax Capabilities” beware on that last part. Now this unit is not for the faint of heart. So I replaced it with a Lexmark MC3426i unit. The other day I retired an HP color laser all in one that I had here at home because my Sister was about to chuck it out the window. Posted on Februat 22:05 CST by Susan Bradley
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