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90% of email sent today is encrypted between servers but even if it’s not, it’s probably 1000x harder to intercept an email than a fax.
You could impersonate a telephone company worker, twist a speaker to a phone line, and literally record the noise with your phone to get a reproducible fax image.
Email is going to be a lot harder. A lot.
There’s barely any analog phone lines anymore anyway so you could say that probably made fax more secure, but that has nothing to do with fax being inherently secure. It’s the opposite of that.
I love how people think it's SO easy to go mission impossible and get access to phone lines. Or more to the point a SPECIFIC phone line... Having spent a fair amount of time in commerical buildings wiring closets. Doctor fubar's fax line isn't label as such...