On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:38:25 -0400, Pete Theisen <petet@acun.com> wrote:
> Max F Lang wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 August 2004 23:31, Pete Theisen wrote:>
> >>>Is this allowable under HIPAA etc?>>
> >>Theoretically if the security was rock solid . . .>
> >
> > Theoretically, maybe. But in real life
> <snip>
> > It would have been a minor exercise to have
> > pulled confidential patient record databases from most of them, and
> > since many of these database formats are well known, well...
>
> Hi Max!
>
> That is disturbing. I am working on such an application for Traditional
> Chinese Medicine. I guess I will have to make it lock down by default so
> they *have* to use secure passwords, change the passwords every so often
> and so on. Then the users start posting the passwords on the screen
> border with sticky notes . . .
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>
Pete I have a question for you. Have you thought about a hardware
security. Example Instead of using passwords that are going to change
etc... which is going to lead to above that you mentioned. How about
authenicating via smart card they would insert. or better yet
biometerics. Personally I think that for medical records say in a
computer enviroment biometerics is the way to go. Personally I would
like to be able to log on my slackware boxes with biomatrix instead of
a password. Why then none of you would be able to break into my box.
Well maybe logan as I think he would just cut off my thumb. But no
body else.
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