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I upvoted you, but want you to consider how there can be dramatically worse bad actors than the government or legitimate companies (the insurance/credit/licensi
by tonyarkles 7y ago
I upvoted you, but want you to consider how there can be dramatically worse bad actors than the government or legitimate companies (the insurance/credit/licensing stuff you mention): people end up in the hospital sometimes because someone else wants to hurt them. Simple example: spousal/partner abuse. More extreme but easily plausible in Vancouver: gang violence.
If I failed at a hit, and I can watch the POCSAG traffic and see the that the guy I tried to take out is in a coma (and not dead), and is in room 404 at Vancouver General Hospital, that's very valuable information.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI've found with most hospitals that finding out a patient's location is as simple as asking. Maybe some people get identified as "VIPs" and it's not so easy. Dunno if every random gun-shot victim makes that, but if your "hit" was more an "accidental" car wreck, you can probably ask and find out where they are.
- lostlogin 7y agoYou can do better than that. Put on some blue scrubs and carry something complicated looking. Look hurried. You’ll be admitted into almost any healthcare facility.
- tonyarkles 7y agoYou're both right, and healthcare definitely has a lot of fun threat modelling exercises you can do. I suppose the big thing that the pager monitoring stuff gives you is a live stream of some significant fraction of all the patients coming through, not just a specific target.