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I heard that the teams were having trouble communicating with each other and so the ones who pushed the config might not have been the ones looking for hackers.

I heard that the teams were having trouble communicating with each other and so the ones who pushed the config might not have been the ones looking for hackers. This is why some hospitals still use the old pager systems to contact people in the city. One hospital-owned antenna on a battery can coordinate a lot of people. I don’t know what the equivalent to that would be in this case though.

chx 4y ago
Ham radio. It still works, you know? Also, pagerduty works over wifi...
- notatoad 4y ago
  >works over wifi even when the internet is down?
- xattt 4y ago
  Radiocommunications Regulations in Canada indicate that “radiocommunications in support of industrial, business or professional activities” cannot be done over ham radio (Section 47, Subsection C, Para iii). I would imagine using it for running a nurse-doc comms would constitute professional use.
  - buscoquadnary 4y ago
    I have my Ham license in America and so it may be different for our maple syrup friends up north. But one thing that is stressed repeatedly throughout preparing for the exam is that when an emergency happens most of the restrictions fly out the door as the emphasis is on helping address the emergency. So I am assuming the FCC equivalent wouldn't be too peeved. Of course I'm sure this does run the line of if this is emergency or not.
    - xattt 4y ago
      In this case, the option would be to have a whole bunch of care providers in the hospital trained and licensed for ham radio. May whatever deity you worship help the instructor teaching atmospheric propagation to some of the staff I’ve worked with in the past.
      - mdtusz 4y ago
        Let's not make ham radio operation out to be some complex Voodoo that requires months of training. You tune your radio to a given frequency and press the ptt button. Yes sure, there's repeaters, and other details to know about, but tx/rx on a single frequency isn't exactly the rocket science that sad hams make it out to be.
    - terinjokes 4y ago
      An telecommunications outage, by itself, is not an immediate threat to life or limb to you, and you'd need to exhaust other reasonable options to communicate before that emergency provision comes into play. (Many hospitals do also have ham radio operators as part of the disaster plans and operate during their drills.) INAL, contact ARRL for farther questions.
      - macintux 4y ago
        I’m skeptical the FCC would be upset if the alternative is 911 service being unavailable for most of the country.
        xattt 4y ago
        The alternative would have been to pull the SIM card to access 911 through any available cell network, but not many knew about this.
Arrath 4y ago
A remote devops guy is enjoying some quiet time at home when... https://youtu.be/-sQqc6xy_og?t=42 https://youtu.be/-sQqc6xy_og?t=42

chx 4y ago

Ham radio. It still works, you know? Also, pagerduty works over wifi...

notatoad 4y ago
>works over wifi even when the internet is down?
xattt 4y ago
Radiocommunications Regulations in Canada indicate that “radiocommunications in support of industrial, business or professional activities” cannot be done over ham radio (Section 47, Subsection C, Para iii). I would imagine using it for running a nurse-doc comms would constitute professional use.
- buscoquadnary 4y ago
  I have my Ham license in America and so it may be different for our maple syrup friends up north. But one thing that is stressed repeatedly throughout preparing for the exam is that when an emergency happens most of the restrictions fly out the door as the emphasis is on helping address the emergency. So I am assuming the FCC equivalent wouldn't be too peeved. Of course I'm sure this does run the line of if this is emergency or not.
  - xattt 4y ago
    In this case, the option would be to have a whole bunch of care providers in the hospital trained and licensed for ham radio. May whatever deity you worship help the instructor teaching atmospheric propagation to some of the staff I’ve worked with in the past.
    - mdtusz 4y ago
      Let's not make ham radio operation out to be some complex Voodoo that requires months of training. You tune your radio to a given frequency and press the ptt button. Yes sure, there's repeaters, and other details to know about, but tx/rx on a single frequency isn't exactly the rocket science that sad hams make it out to be.
  - terinjokes 4y ago
    An telecommunications outage, by itself, is not an immediate threat to life or limb to you, and you'd need to exhaust other reasonable options to communicate before that emergency provision comes into play. (Many hospitals do also have ham radio operators as part of the disaster plans and operate during their drills.) INAL, contact ARRL for farther questions.
    - macintux 4y ago
      I’m skeptical the FCC would be upset if the alternative is 911 service being unavailable for most of the country.
      - xattt 4y ago
        The alternative would have been to pull the SIM card to access 911 through any available cell network, but not many knew about this.

Arrath 4y ago

A remote devops guy is enjoying some quiet time at home when... https://youtu.be/-sQqc6xy_og?t=42 https://youtu.be/-sQqc6xy_og?t=42