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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
Well having worked in the hospital setting before...:) And this is only my experience... but Its not usually likely that database machines or critical patient care hardware would be attached to a network available over the public network. In general they are on networks not attached at all, its not a matter of being behind a firewall its just no connection exists. Hospitals certainly have networks and have internet access but in ggeneral the dicom network for heart patients can't be reached unless your attached in someway to the network. If you want to send a patient file to another remote locationor Dr you usually burn it on cd and ship it with the patient, carry it physically to the other location, or carry it to a machine which is internet connected. just my $.02 On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > I can't imagine they would actually follow through with this though, all > > it takes is one incident where they cause financial harm to someone with > > an mp3 they misidentify and their highground is gone. Then again, I can't > > imagine congress being so massively stupid either, so I suppose anything > > is possible. > > One scenario I can imagine is the MPAA ddos'ing or h4x0ring a university > hospital network because they found warez on some secretary's desktop PC. > As a result, some databases get corrupted and patients die. Would this > bill shield the MPAA from being liable for manslaughter? > > -Dan >
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