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Some things jumped out from the article as feeling sloppy. > The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years.
by TheCowboy 2y ago
Some things jumped out from the article as feeling sloppy.
> The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years.
If anyone is curious, a total of 17 days since 1999 according to a report obtained by the Washington Post from 2021.
> Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996.
The algorithm? Huh? But it actually does seem serious that they have "denied nearly 100 federal requests to audit source code, reported The Washington Post." UNOS said they would have pentesting done in the WaPo article, but I couldn't find any reporting on if they actually followed through.
Additional sources:
https://fedscoop.com/usds-organ-transplant-system-shakeup/ https://fedscoop.com/usds-organ-transplant-system-shakeup/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/31/unos-transplants-kindeys-hearts-technology/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/31/unos-transp...
- firejake308 2y ago> Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996. I take issue with the way this point is presented. I'm willing to believe that healthcare data wasn't encrypted with the SOTA methods and one that was regarded as "good enough" instead, but the age of the algorithm has nothing to do with it's security. After all, RSA encryption is from 1977.
- TheCowboy 2y agoRight. I also didn't find anything to corroborate this sentence with anything, so it could also be a case of a layperson referring to everything as "the algorithm".