On 2014 Feb 21, at 18:24, Scott Ribe wrote:
On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Bradley O'Hearne
<br...@bighillsoftware.com> wrote:
Industries such as medical (HIPAA), legal, government, education,
military defense, etc. all have such security needs.
The only way I can see for the app under discussion to work is to
create kiosks with human proctors, and not use the network. The video
surveillance won't suffice to stop the cheating. But if you're going
to do it that way, why use the computers at all? Might as well go back
to paper as we do with election ballots. I'd even recommend privacy
shields around each test-taker, require that devices be in opaque
containers, etc.
I can see why such tests need to be secure, because I've seen the
articles about College Board test questions being collected, posted on
the net, and crowd-sourcing of answers, which people then memorized.
That was about a decade back though, and they pulled the on-line tests,
and probably caught and penalized a tiny fraction of those involved.
Well, there's certainly no such need for HIPAA compliance...
Correct. Because HIPAA is Orwellian. It says it's to protect patient
privacy, but makes sure privacy is violated, instead. It was to
facilitate federal government snooping into individual medical records
(or at least their software snooping), and cross-border processing,
while putting on a nice face to the victims. I've consulted for some
of the state "medical cost containment" people, and they yearn for a
fool-proof way to integrate all such records so that no one's medical
history gets through the cracks (e.g. matching up ambulance/EMT contact
with hospital admission & treatment, with rehab center admission and
treatment and out-patient treatment... despite people giving variants
of their names, refusing to give Socialist Insecurity Numbers or
intentionally making "mistakes" or making up new ones on the spot in an
effort to preserve some shred of privacy), but despite having nearly
full access to people's DNA, we still have some slim shreds of privacy
left.
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