The story calls it a 60 year old technology - the first real fax machine predates cinema! But yeah, as I thought, German laws on signature authentication are more rigorous than ours. I bought my flat with a phone call, signed a few days later.
Really? How odd. I remember they were a great wonder at my work when we started using them in the late 80s, but even by about the mid 90s they were sitting in dusty, forgotten corners. I guess there must be some legal requirement. Or maybe Germans are just nostalgic for the whole Berlin Wall / Scorpions / Rudi Voller's haircut era.
Whatever one's position is, technologically speaking this is a massively impressive operation. Causing thousands of these things to, presumably, overheat their batteries and explode in the same time period is one of the highest impact hacks in history, one might say.
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