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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by Symbiote on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:15AM (#13541896)
It's The Register, daft headlines is their style. They imitate the cheap, mass-market newspapers in the UK like The Sun or The Mirror.

The NHS is one of the world's largest employers. If all that traffic is behind a small range of IPs (one wouldn't be enough) I'm not surprised there are issues. It does seem an odd network design though.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by lmm on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:59AM (#13542403)
> If all that traffic is behind a small range of IPs (one wouldn't be enough) I'm not surprised there are issues. It does seem an odd network design though.

"Plonk all our desktops behind a router, NAT the whole thing" isn't that unusual as a network design.

One would hope that the government in particular would be moving to IPv6 as the socially responsible thing to do.

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Re:NHS staff trigger Google cyber-defences by Symbiote on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:31PM (#13542796)
It's a bit unusual for an organization with thousands of sites, spread across an entire country. I haven't checked, but it probably has a huge IPv4 allocation too.

I'd expect something more like the university networks.

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