This is why medical records and elections should not be on the internet. There’s no safe way to manage it. It must be on hard physical, analog, media.
I remember the Physical Reaction I had to the first mention of Internet Voting...
a tightening of the gut....and it went downhill from there...
these agencies...need the own closed networks
“This is why medical records and elections should not be on the internet.”
Here in Ohio, when I need to refill a script for mild muscle relaxing meds for a pinched nerve/muscle spasms, I have to go to my Doc’s office- he can’t phone it in anymore- and pick up the script. They have to have my driver’s license which they put on top of the script, and scan it into the computer records. I hate it, and my Doc hates it!
Yes, there is. Companies, and individual people, do it every day.
But as usual, the government is incompetent. Password-only authentication is inadequate, and superior security has been available for decades.
My clients and my company require a VPN connection to get beyond the firewall, and setting up a VPN connection requires both a traditional password (which I must remember) and a pseudo-random password that changes every 20 seconds, and can only be used once.
I have the same technology (commonly called "two-factor authentication") for my Apple, Google, and Microsoft accounts. An app on my phone generates the pseudo-random part.
Even my bank requires two-factor authentication, by sending me a pseudo-random code in a text message, before I can login.
Yes, I can’t believe how stupid putting our ‘PRIVATE’ info on computers/internet, all in the name of ‘helping you as fast as possible.’
Plus they print out more paper than ever.
Heaven help us from the idiots/enemies!