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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by tialaramex on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:42AM (#19036614)
Lawyers are notoriously superstitious. Worse even than medics, since we managed somewhat to get modern medics to embrace the idea that it's possible to find out whether the blue pill or green pill is best by _doing science_ rather than relying on your gut instinct.

Superstition leads to lawyers doing again a thing that worked previously without knowing why it worked or having any understanding that it's actually necessary for any reason. Most of the weird forms of words in legal contracts are a result of this, the court probably doesn't care whether you demand someone "Cease and desist" or just "Stop fucking doing that" but who wants to risk that they do care? Let's just write "Cease and desist" the same as we did on the previous document...

So, she uses Fax because her predecessors used Fax, not because there's an actual "something legal-binding about faxes". Just superstition.

There are superstitious people in every profession, that's what "sync; sync; sync" is all about - it's just that lawyering seems especially prone.

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Re:Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug las... by darkpuma on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:27PM (#19040256)
There is a big difference between medics and laywers. Medics are playing a game where the rules are set by nature, biology, reality. Lawyers on the other hand play a game where the rules are set by other people in the legal industry (lawyers, judges, or legislators.) Moral men cannot alter issue proclamations about which pill will work and expect their demands to be heeded by nature, but all the rules in the legal system are made by mortal men. If people in the legal system decide that fax machines are blessed, then they are.
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