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- deweyhewson, on 04/17/2009, -0/+9Doesn't it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy that every organization from your local medical clinic to the place you buy your morning coffee has personal information about you, without any control by you, who completely disregard anything even remotely resembling effective safety protocols?
The concept of privacy really is being lost, isn't it? - Shiner76, on 04/16/2009, -0/+9Just wanted to point out that the report referenced actually documents 285 million records, and I believe the Cnet article has a typo indicating 295 million.
- gilbes, on 04/17/2009, -1/+5This is what happens when mission critical applications are shipped off to the lowest bidders in 3rd world countries.
- aaroninflash, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4<breach></security>
- antdude, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2Errors, wow.
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -1/+3Do you feel safer now? Good. Do you feel safer now? Good. Do you feel safer now? Good.
- zyko, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2Anyone in IT will know that most businesses are clueless about security. Small businesses are the worst, but even large ones are guilty. You have lawyers and medical offices that email sensitive data and store it on unsecure computers. They email all these documents back and forth like no big deal.
- emt1451, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2HIPPA. That is, if they're following the law, which they probably are, because there are huge penalties if they aren't.
- deweyhewson, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2HIPPA is only for the health industry. Our information is spread far further than that.
- emt1451, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2I was referring to his mention of "medical clinic". I thought it was pretty obvious.
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1It doesn't really matter.
Sure, one bureaucrat gets to make another bureaucrat squirm when their is a HIPPA violation. Maybe there is even a fine or a bad mark on the institution's record. Big whoop - the violation still happened and people still got harmed. And the victims don't get unharmed.
When HIPPA came out health care providers started passing out pieces of paper that said they could ship my private data to other countries. I asked if US laws protecting private information applied in those countries. If they didn't respond yes then sometimes they got back a piece of paper with information needed to treat me minus a signature since that wasn't needed to treat me but just as a CYA for some companies I don't even know.
Hospitals have break-ins all the time. Look at the recent case of the allegedly (according to his wife) mental security guard who installed malware on MS-Windows based PC controlling the AC/heating system at his hospital and played with turning it off and on in operating rooms and stuff.
Also consider that treatment machines have been infected by malware because they were controlled by PCs and running on hospital LANs where -- appreciate the irony here - malware was endemic.
There was a news report in the last year or two of a guy who took over 4 hospitals in Chicago or Texas. I think he lived in one of the areas and took over computers in the other area. Kind of torqued people he was so audacious but the fact is he was and that was why he did it.
if computers actually want to get pwned then they are going to get pwned. [**] Considering how long it has been going on with MS-DOS and now MS-Windows I'm really wondering if the people programming it and fixing the old stuff want it fixed. Or if they have just thrown up their hands and said, "lets just say 'it cannot be done'".
** I am not saying they deserve to get pwned just that they don't seem to mind/resist it very much based on all the statistics and incidents and long-unfixed security bugs - which by the way, there do not seem to be any metrics on... ?!! - inactive, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1whatever. is someone going to steal the $5.23 out of my bank account or find out I still rickroll myself?
- EricPZ, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1It's gonna get worse before it gets better. Companies want all the latest productivity tools but they don't bother making sure the funding is there to protect their data. Too many breaches have occurred lately and it's gonna get worse. Just wait until the Gov steps in and creates regs worse that HIPAA etc. Then we'll really see costs go up.
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