Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:08:44 -0400
From: Gary Stock <gstock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tbtf-irregulars <tbtf-irregulars@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRR] From the TEST-ON-A-B2B Department
IRR:
I.e., "Two E-Stories That Ought Never Appear Back To Back."
HEALTHSOUTH, Oracle to Build Groundbreaking Digital Hospital
(In case your digits are sickly. Or even _terminal_ :-)
Blah-blah, if you care:
http://www.oracle.com/features/index.html?healthsouthpc.html
http://www.healthsouth.com/hsus/HSUS/EN_US/corporate/abouths/pressroom/digi
tal_hospital.jsp
My favorite clip, from today's InternetWorld:
http://www.internetworld.com/news/archive/03272001b.jsp#3.27oracle
"...Digitized records are more private than paper records that
currently sit on metal shelves in hospitals and doctors' offices because
only authorized health-care professionals will have password access to
the central database, [Oracle CEO Larry] Ellison said. The digital
records will be less fragmented, and the patients themselves can be
given more convenient access to their own records through password
access over the Internet, he noted..."
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Hmmm... must be they figure that if a system is big enough, they can
afford better security. But:
DoubleClick Admits Servers Were Hacked
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_723761,00.html
"...In an email interview with InternetNews.com, Kitetoa suggested
that the attackers might have planted password sniffers on the
compromised servers or used them to traverse to other DoubleClick
systems. [DoubleClick's chief privacy officer Jules] Polonetsky
insisted that DoubleClick's customers are not at risk..."
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Maybe Double Click should have used some of those _paper_ records... ?
GS
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