Technically, someone can hack in if you have an open internet connection,
hence Ewan's recent post about home security and firewalls (perhaps Ewan
could fill us in here). The security on 95 isn't really adequate, as far as
I am aware, and it is only with NT that one can begin to feel really secure.
A
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Peter Wilson
> Sent: 05 December 1998 12:43
> To: gp-uk
> Subject: Home security
>
>
> 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
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