[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 12:43 on 05/12/98
about "Home security":
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>>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?
NHS Net connection using NHS Net standard firewall and so on for all
GPs at home............... remember where you heard it first.
Glad to see people are catching up<g>
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