[LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
If you wish to opt-out of the MyHealthRecord trials you can go to this site. http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml A few clicks takes you to a page where you can fill in identity details That page asks for name, date of birth and Medicare number and one of driver lic

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Michael
I heard this today via an acquaintance (I live in the Blue Mountains pilot zone and this is getting some discussion). I can confirm it is unencrypted. Hard to believe that anybody could set up a form requesting driver's licence, passport numbers, names, addresses etc. without the most basic level o

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 11:20 AM, Michael wrote: > I heard this today via an acquaintance (I live in the Blue Mountains pilot > zone and this is getting some discussion). I can confirm it is unencrypted. > Hard to believe that anybody could set up a form requesting driver's > licence, passport numbers, names,

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 04/04/16 11:12, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: If you wish to opt-out of the MyHealthRecord trials you can go to this site. http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml A few clicks takes you to a page where you can fill in identity details That page asks for name, date

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:12:03AM +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > If you wish to opt-out of the MyHealthRecord trials you can go to this site. > http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml > > A few clicks takes you to a page where you can fill in identity details >

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Roger Clarke
At 11:12 +1000 4/4/16, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >If you wish to opt-out of the MyHealthRecord trials you can go to this site. >http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml > >A few clicks takes you to a page where you can fill in identity details > >That page asks for na

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:39:13AM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote: > Some other questions intrude: one more question: why isn't this part of the my.gov.au site? craig ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 11:33 AM, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On 04/04/16 11:12, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> If you wish to opt-out of the MyHealthRecord trials you can go to >> this site. >> http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml >> >> A few clicks takes you to a page where you

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Michael
Just for clarity, the main site page, which is https encrypted is here: https://myhealthrecord.gov.au/internet/mhr/publishing.nsf/Content/trials#dont-wantmhr It links to the http unencrypted opt-out page. It isn't a case of somebody entering a URL manually, it is the only link from the main site.

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 11:39 AM, Roger Clarke wrote: > So how on earth can that be the sole criterion for identifying the applicant > for suppression of a medical record?? Because if you don't have a medicare number you won't be registered. It's a faslsehood that you'll get a My Health Record, you still n

[LINK] Election hacking

2016-04-03 Thread Jim Birch
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Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:39 +1000, Roger Clarke wrote: > However, that isn't conclusive evidence that the contents are > transmitted in clear. It''s a bit complicated. The myhealtrecord site does seem to be doing the right thing; the main page redirects to https and so on. But to opt out you are s

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 12:13 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: > I have a call in to MyHealthRecord trying to tell them about this. It > will be interesting to see if they do actually get back to me. They did. Someone called David rang me, and said that the problem was already being rectified. He mentioned g

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

2016-04-03 Thread Jim Birch
On 2 April 2016 at 13:54, Karl Auer wrote: "compressed for transmission" means "has had much data discarded". All digital video is compressed, except maybe the truly lossless "raw" digital masters at a studio. These chew up massive bandwidth/storage, and, contain a lot more information than the

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

2016-04-03 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:31 +1000, Jim Birch wrote: > On 2 April 2016 at 13:54, Karl Auer wrote: > "compressed for transmission" means "has had much data discarded". > > All digital video is compressed, except maybe the truly lossless > "raw" digital masters at a studio. These chew up massive > b

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

2016-04-03 Thread JanW
At 01:53 PM 4/04/2016, Karl Auer wrote: >So I'm not knocking video "compression". But I do think people should >know what they are paying for. Here's a different angle on chosen compression. The new 7Flix channel is using MPEG4. My HD tv doesn't do MPEG4, evidently just MPEG2. The racing channe

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

2016-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 04/04/16 14:04, JanW wrote: At 01:53 PM 4/04/2016, Karl Auer wrote: So I'm not knocking video "compression". But I do think people should know what they are paying for. Here's a different angle on chosen compression. The new 7Flix channel is using MPEG4. My HD tv doesn't do MPEG4, evidentl

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 12:43 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 12:13 +1000, Karl Auer wrote: >> I have a call in to MyHealthRecord trying to tell them about this. It >> will be interesting to see if they do actually get back to me. > They did. Someone called David rang me, and said that the proble

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 2:04 PM, JanW wrote: > At 01:53 PM 4/04/2016, Karl Auer wrote: > >> So I'm not knocking video "compression". But I do think people should >> know what they are paying for. > Here's a different angle on chosen compression. The new 7Flix channel is > using MPEG4. My HD tv doesn't do MP

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:49 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > However, the > http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml > link still works. Not for me. Looks fixed - the https version works, the http version returns an error (would be nicer if it redrected, but even s

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 3:40 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:49 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> However, the >> http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml >> link still works. > Not for me. Looks fixed - the https version works, the http version > returns an er

Re: [LINK] MyHealthRecord opt-out Site

2016-04-03 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 4/04/2016 3:40 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:49 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> However, the >> http://www2.medicareaustralia.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/optout.xhtml >> link still works. Not any more it doesn't. It returns "The server was unable to fulfil the request"