MY Linux desktop stinks HIPPA

ec wrote:
>
> The only way, as I see it, is for those databases to
> be completely off line as far as the internet goes.
> Hopefully, the sys admins can convince those to NOT
> use the internet but direct dialup/network that is off
> line.
>
> Yes, hopefully my health records are on puters that
> are off line.
>


Irrelevant.

My health records were stolen in December, 2002. Online database?
Nope. Internet hacker that wrote a hydra and dropped it in through a
back door on an old PDP-7 and cracked the 1024 bit encryption? Nope.
They broke into the office at I-17 and Tbird and stole the laptops. No
alarms, no roving patrols, no video surveillance, no cable locks, no
security. Nada, Zip.

Needless to say, HIPAA has recently become a focal point for me.

George Toft