[mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care

[Mark Kimsal]

On Monday 12 January 09, Bhaskar Navaneetham wrote:
> Just 2cent worth of thoughts!!! Is anyone thought about security? Thumb
> nail loss will be a major issue and web portal also a risk of someone
> personal information. Is any technology beyond this?
>


http://truecrypt.org
http://www.openssl.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard

As for right now, using true crypt to encrypt an entire thumb-drive with 
public/private key and aes-256 algorithm would probably be more secure than 
your current medical or banking records right now.

First, the only way someone could attack your records right now is if you lost 
your key.  As of right now, there could be 100 people trying to hack into 
your medical records and there's no way for you to know.

Secondly, it would probably be cheaper and faster to clone you, raise the 
clone with your exact childhood, and then get permission to read their 
medical history than it would be to try to break aes-256.  But, we all know 
that technology gets cheaper and faster and what not.  

The real problem with you having access to your own medical records is that 
you could forge them.  There's no way anybody would allow you to have access 
to the master copy of something about you.  Imagine if you could have your 
credit history on a thumb-drive...   At best we will get copies of medical 
records.  In which case, the encrypted thumb drive is still way more secure 
than any centralized, secure storage solution.


As for the Web site... it's pretty easy to create a very secure Web site 
portal, it's just that usually people don't like to be bothered with creating 
strong passwords, logging out, using a certain browser with certain settings, 
not accessing the site from a cafe with free wi-fi... etc. etc.

Security of a Web site is half up to the owners/developers and half up to the 
people who use it.

>
> 2009/1/12 Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com>
>
> > David Lane wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be cool if you could give your doctor a
> > > thumb-drive and he/she could bring your medical history.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > And in the military, I would like to see the same thing
> > with regards to marksmanship, including placement of
> > each shot -- but I don't see it happening any time soon.
> > Component technology hasn't reached the required level
> > for my idea to work yet.
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