24 points hn_acker 1 hour ago 4 comments
exabrial 37 minutes ago | parent
I really want these people handling my healthcare and other details about my life.
max__dev 13 minutes ago | parent
Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymore. (last time this was mainstream worthy was 200M leaked records in 2024).
Last week
https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthe...
Week before that
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-pati...
2 weeks before that:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-...
Libcat99 4 minutes ago | parent
And it will remain this was as long as the consequences of not protecting our data remain trivial.
curuinor 36 minutes ago | parent
Near the beginning of my career, I talked to a greybeard who harrumphed at me discussing something-or-other and said "computer security is an oxymoron". I thought he was being too pessimistic, nowadays I realize he was right.