Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by gaius_baltar on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:12PM (#25919230)

> My bank still accepts fax documents. All I would have to do is find a fax machine ...

On linux you can use [efax](https://linux.die.net/man/1/efax) and a modem and... ooops, good luck finding a modem.

I did this for real ~10 years ago when a stupid company didn't accept a scanned PDF by email and required a fax of the actual document "because security". The difference is that I had a modem in an old laptop at that time, so I just send them the same scanned PDF.

Now I'm wondering if there is a provision for sending faxes somewhere in the GSM/3G/4G rabbit hole of standards.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by unilynx on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:20PM (#25919335)

I’m not sure if it required anything from the network, but my Siemens C35 could send faxes

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by freeone3000 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:44PM (#25919601)

GSM yes, but once phones went digital that capability was lost.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by gumby on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:55PM (#25919734)

GSM phones are digital and include a special FAX mode.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by ciceryadam on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:10PM (#25921092)

One of my previous employees had a Kofax server with 6 ISDN lines for faxing. D in ISDN stands for Digital.

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