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by DEADBEEFC0FFEE 2413 days ago
No quite, many fax system are just modems, image conversion to pdf, email. Plenty to go wrong. Paper faxes might be revived by the machine by you have no idea who read it, or who didnt. Fax machine are typically MFP devices, so now you may have some part of a medical record on your photocopier HDD.

Many fax machine can be programmed over the wire, so maybe you have default pins and now your faxes are being forwarded and you don't know.