[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 08:15 on 24/11/98
about "RE: NHS Net SMTP problems are being worked on":
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>> Remaining problems to tackle include the ways in which GPs are to be
>> connected at home - in my view an integral part of NHS networking -
>> and the residual possibility of some anal retentive accountant
>> realising that for security there a service must be provided to GPs
>> children and families (think it through, T.I.N.A)
>>
>>
>> --- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
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>I still don't see why we cant have laptops/notebooks for work at home
or on
>call access. GP's kids should not be using the nhsnet
>for edutainment. Either your home PC is for work and is thus as secure
as your
>work PC or it is for anyones use thus you cant have
>NHSnet on it. Given that a stand alone NHSnet ready PC can be bought
for about
>£750, why not have two at home if you dont want to
>lug a notebook around?
>
>Trefor
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I will cheerfully accept a notebook (my own is getting a bit scuffed
and new ones are faster)
but you have missed the point.
At home we have three machines on the network, (when the medical
student is home and the laptop, Z88 and Pilot are not)
Now, would you argue that GPs must have _two_ networks at home, each
independently connected, one to NHS Net and another to an ordinary
ISP, and that no floppies must be in common? I think not.
So, one of the security expenses of the NHS Net for GPs is providing
ordinary ISP for legitimate users of their equipment at home.
Perhaps you would say that the use of a GPs PC at home by a member
of the family to turn out a few pages of typed essay could be made
so clearly unacceptable, so horrifically punishable, that it would
not happen? No. Examine the problem, consider whose needs are
servd by restricting GPs to the secure ISP services of the new NHS
Net, and the actual cost of adding a few children and a spouse (who
is highly likely on the practice payroll anyway and therefore in the
NHS family) to the connection, and provide it with a smile rather
than having it taken or the security compromised in all the way s we
are told (and are getting close to being convinced) are worth
avoiding and need NHS net to avoid. There was a phrase about kine
and grain...
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
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