Agreed, and I support your idea, but if someone does either intercept a
message, or hack into the list, then if patient identifiers are being sent,
there would be a serious problem, I think. From your message, have I got the
wrong end of the stick, and are you proposing a closed list on which
clinical details are *not* being transmitted?
If details were being transmitted, the situation wouldn't be any different
from the one the BMA is objecting to over NHSnet - the BMA concern is partly
about what happens if a message containing patient data is intercepted en
route - and the solution they propose is encryption.
A
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ahmad Risk
> Sent: 05 December 1998 12:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help gp-uk
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:18:03 -0000, Peter Wilson wrote:
>
> >Ahmad's idea would certainly suit my needs.
> >
> >Would it be secure _enough_ to enable detailed discussion?
>
> It would be secure enough because it is a closed list. Members
> admitted manually after verification. It is not a public list.
>
> Ahmad
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