Hospital gave sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure

Havoc

If you hang out in the sysadmin subreddit for a bit you’ll see this a lot. Medical shops somehow have the strictest regulations (HIPAA) yet are the worst run dysfunctional orgs

kotaKat

Yep. Happens all the time in healthcare IT. "The doctor is one of our multi-million-dollar revenue generators, so we let it slide" is the excuse. Every time. I've personally written up a chief radiologist before for it. Zero action, because "he made the facility $6m+ last year" in rural nowhere. It was actually one of the helpdesk's interview questions - "how do you handle responding to a doctor whose machine is full of porn?" No wonder years later they got slammed by ransomware.

everybodyknows

What are the usual attack vectors for that?

origini

I fixed a 'dirty' pc in a small office with 3 people. The offender was one of the two bosses, the other one did not like that. I added porn filter on there router.

dclavijo

Watching porn is like doing sex, you should be doing it safely instead of trying to ban it. Education is always the best tool.

beeforpork

What was the sickness of the doctor? Does the article tell so? Or does it imply that endulging in adult entertainment is -- ahem -- sick?

thraway3837

Could've just let him bring his own device and given him a cellular modem and have it pulled out of his paycheck. It would have been less than $100/month and he would not have even noticed it, being a top physician making $1M+/year. Or, Cellular iPad. Stays off the network, and doesn't infect anything else.

leothetechguy

sure don't watch porn on your work pc, but this is just technical illiteracy.