Andrew wrote in another thread
>As an interesting aside, with hackers beginning to probe for open internet
>connections with increasingly sophisticated tools, anyone who stores
patient
>data on their home machine without a firewall is at risk of breaching
>confidentiality.
This sounds like an absolute nightmare scenario :-((
There can't be many of us who haven't brought _some_ work home, e.g. medical
reports about patients, correspondence to HA re budgets and all sorts!
Andrew, are you implying that while I'm connected to the Internet for
whatever reason there is the possibility that a hacker could download files
from my HDD transparently?
If so, what is the solution and its cost?
Anxiously yours :-(
Peter
Dr Peter Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
GP, Broadstairs <http://www.albionrd.demon.co.uk>
Medical Director - East Kent Doctors On-Call <www.ekdoc.com>
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