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# huh?
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:30, archived)
# 'mericun thing
for making medical records private through encryption (and other things). It's fun to communicate privately to a lot of people without defining how the privacy is accomplished.

(I'm at least 16 hours into this project. Yes, I'm bitter.)
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:32, archived)
# Sounds grrrrrrrrrrrreat
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:34, archived)
# I'm considering using Rot13 encoding.
technically, it complies.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:39, archived)
# and making it way too fucking hard to treat patients
keeping records and other vital information from different treating doctors
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:38, archived)
# The patients are too ignorant to maintain access...
...but often, so are the doctors.

It's not going to get better soon, I'm afraid.

The antagonists are the data-mining companies, like doubleclick and DHS. Information wants to be free, yet private. If we can learn to treat it this way, it'll make the world better.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2005, 0:45, archived)