[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 09:51 on 01/12/98
about "RE: Home networks":
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>They are using it in the Childrens Hospital in Derby (and possibly
Sheffield)
>to access educational material and to communicate with
>other childrens units such as Great Ormond Street. Helps kids with
long term
>illness be educated.
>
>Again I ask, what is the problem? Why does this really mean that it is
not
>secure. What is the difference between patients in a
>childrens hospital and GP's kids using it, as Midge is suggesting.
It is not a "problem", but it does need explicitly managing and it
needs to be managed in a way which encourages good practice and
doesn't encourage anything else.
The access the kids get in the hospital is no doubt through a log on
identity for that purpose.
The same must apply to everyone else using it.
Come to think of it, the public access terminal in the waiting room
should have the same conditions applied to it.
And to reduce total costs, we should be anabled not to need a
separate ISP for ourselves and family at home.
>The
>firewall/virus software will prevent accidental and
>deliberate downloading of potentially damaging material and they
cannot get
>into anything they shouldn't because of other security
>such as passwording. Why should the use of NHSnet be a problem. Better
that
>they use that than they use the internet as it is
>available in the hospital and in effect, free. To set up a separate
internet
>conection would cost more money as they would need a
>modem and a phone line and an isp and and and
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