After a general wider search and chat with other colleagues, it has become
clear that the reason that the government is not happy about encryption on the
NHSNW is that they would like to read peoples medical notes. It would be a
neat means of following people around the country too. There have been
nightmare scenarios raised about Spooks being able to break into NHS computers
and say alter the path labs computer record of an injured IRA bomber's blood
group and so give him a mismatched transfusion or ordering an ITU computer to
give a massive overdose of K+. Even if the MHS exec. Allowed encryption,
someone would need to hold master keys incase the system collapsed- guess who
would demand copies? AmI being paranoid? Or after the Colin Wallace case, can
you trust them to be fair?
Paul caldwell
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