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by asdfasgasdgasdg 2058 days ago
Sometimes analogies can be misleading. It's a lot harder to design a secure hospital IT apparatus than a safe. Also, in the event of a safe getting cracked, you'd likely have no recourse against the safe vendor. Safes are designed to present a firewall against tampering, but with sufficient physical access, no safe will stand for long. So your analogy fails two ways: one is that it trivializes the difficulty of the problem you're analogizing, and the other is that even if it were a good analogy, it would cut against your argument.
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> It's a lot harder to design a secure hospital IT apparatus than a safe.

Yeah I agree there.

I'm curious what the surface area could look like. What is the minimum a hospital could operate with? How locked down could things be? Anyone in healthcare care to comment?