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So basically by your own admission your opinion has no consequence. Because your initial point was that my suggestion wasn’t secure. That’s fair. But then yo

So basically by your own admission your opinion has no consequence. Because your initial point was that my suggestion wasn’t secure. That’s fair. But then you went to "there’s no secure solution but the data will be put out there anyway". So if the solution is destined to be insecure what’s wrong with my insecure solution? Or I guess more to the point: what would you do? You’re an intelligent person who knows the issues so give me a solution. Because saying "lets form a committee" isn’t an answer it’s an evasion. It’s what people say when they don’t want to be bothered with coming up with a solution.

tptacek 18y ago
I think we're arguing two different issues. You're arguing that it should be possible to make medical information (including mental health information) available to patients over the Internet. I agree. I'm arguing that, confronted with your specific proposal to put that information onto the Internet, your employer made the right call. The considerations you came up with to defend patient privacy aren't convincing; your suggestion, which I concede is probably abbreviated, is insufficient for an application which handles credit card information, let alone irrevocable patient mental health information.