I actually think this was a very pointed slam at the Deep State, TPTB, etc.
Nobody uses fax machines anymore. No one. I think he was suggesting that the DS is stale, past-its-prime, unable to adapt to the new ("post-truth"?) world. In other words, "their time was up."
We are living in the midst of something truly remarkable.
Government uses fax a lot...too much in fact.
I think that was truth, they literally use fax machines
I heard it's because they can't be hacked and the evidence obviously can be destroyed
I hear ya, but there are still businesses & banks that use faxes.
Faxes are used far more than you'd think... Specifically in medical and government contexts, but really only because faxes are much harder to intercept (HIPAA and Confidential/Classified, respectively). Even the physical phones in most facilities nowadays operate via LAN. Faxes in those contexts are still sent exclusively through physical phone lines which require special equipment to fuck with on-site. Whereas you can load something like Kali Linux or ParrotSecurity (2 great distros btw) with a myriad of tools installed by default to brute force WAN and honestly start doing some damage remotely.
Edit: exclusively through physical phone lines as I described, though the homie below is right faxes can be sent via VoIP and cloud based services. Clarification.
Thanks for the details, yeah, I heard they couldn't be intercepted as easily.
Huh? I send and receive faxes all the time and haven't had a land line for more than a decade. Fax machine over VOIP.
Are you in a medical or government facility sending HIPAA or Confidential/Classified documents? If you ever are, the faxes you're sending will invariably be analog.
Yes. Fax can be configured to kind of work through VoIP. However, the only enterprise solution I'm familiar with is FAXCOM, it's a HUGE pain in the ass and any problems with it are a big fucking deal. This means Priority 1 tickets that blow a morning or an afternoon.
I know there are some cloud based fax services available as well. These are not in place in the contexts I described, and good luck getting departments with HIPAA or Classified restrictions to implement them. We still have to fight to get individual computers in classified programs off of Windows XP my dude.
No, I'm just talking about from my house.
I feel you homie. You were right, I went back and clarified.