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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:30AM (#24917925)
Records-in-trash take considerable work to access, parse, transmit, and duplicate.

Digital data are immensely reproducible.

Motivated adversaries may be motivated. Ask Dan.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famou...

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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by eloisius on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:31AM (#24919124)
It also vastly decreases the feasible number of attackers. Digital records means you are vulnerable to criminals globally, particularly ones from places that don’t care so much about US law. Paper records in the trash are vulnerable to an extremely localized threat.
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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:01PM (#24924605)
Quite.

If you can access it from anywhere (or your healthcare provider, other white hats, etc.), so can the black (or grey, or red, or geen,...) hats.

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