What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?
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Fax machines. Phone lines are pretty private, and sending a fax is usually more secure than emailing something, especially if someone else manages your email.
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Also all of german bureaucracy still works only with fax
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Paper; Notebooks.
Key only physical door locks.
Manual transmission cars.
Not having any IoT appliances, and not connecting everything you own to WiFi.
Hard drive full of MP3s.
Cash.
Not being available for a call if you're not at home.Source: work tangential enough to cybersecurity.
Cash
I heard of some drug dealers not accepting cash where I live
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NATO according to the previous article
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It somehow suprises me but also not really thinking how traditionalist they are
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I love Technology Connections
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Caring about your employees as if they were humans.
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Phones from 2000-2010. Linux/PostmarketOS allows you to run these as mini webservers with webcam's built-in (depending on chip support)
Also PostmarketOS are looking for a new name, so if you've got a suggestion put it here: https://nextcloud.postmarketos.org/apps/forms/s/cAYZZrCqLnrfMPEMAAonCWwx
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Cash
I heard of some drug dealers not accepting cash where I live
What are they taking? Monero? Gift cards?
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Magnetic tape. It's one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.
Just keep it away from magnets... or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can't find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.
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What are they taking? Monero? Gift cards?
Cashapp I'd assume.
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Also all of german bureaucracy still works only with fax
Parts of Canada as well. Our province is terrible for this.
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Cashapp I'd assume.
Lol, might as well hang a sign out front that says "I share data with cops."
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Lol, might as well hang a sign out front that says "I share data with cops."
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Counterpoint, fax is not encrypted and wire taps are very easy. At least e-mail can be encrypted so Joe shmoe on the street can't see it.
Besides, all faxing these days is going through VOIP and computers anyways.
Secure fax is encrypted: it’s sent via https.
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Came here to say this
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Obligatory thought to cobol, which is stil the backbone of banking computers.
I would also think to the good old electromechanical relay which are still pretty common
More political, but whatever what imperator Musk thinks Privacy isn't obsolete
Not only is it not obsolete, it's easier now than eight years ago when I started degoogling, there are so many decent alternatives nowadays to all kinds of services and apps.
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Magnetic tape. It's one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.
Just keep it away from magnets... or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can't find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.
Correlary: always test your backups and don't just assume that they will work when you need them.
