> Sure, some questioned the purity of Tapio’s motives; Kristian Wahlbeck, director of development at Finland’s oldest mental health nonprofit, says he was “a bit frowned-upon” and “perceived as too business-minded.” And yes, there were occasional stories about Vastaamo doing shady-seeming things, such as using Google ads to try to poach prospective patients from a university clinic, as the newspaper Iltalehti reported. But people kept signing up.<p>> But the slick exterior concealed deep vulnerabilities. Mikael Koivukangas, head of R&D at a Finnish medtech firm called Onesys Medical, points out that Vastaamo’s system violated one of the “first principles of cybersecurity”: It didn’t anonymize the records. It didn’t even encrypt them. The only thing protecting patients’ confessions and confidences were a couple of firewalls and a server login screen. Anyone with experience in the field, Koivukangas says, could’ve helped Vastaamo design a safer system.<p>Disappointing, but I'm not surprised.
Every year the number of massive data breaches grows. Every day now there's a story about a different leak (today: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32399949" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32399949</a>)<p>Meanwhile, we're less than a decade away from AR glasses being commonplace (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405565" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405565</a>)<p>Storage continues to get cheaper, devices smaller and faster - more capable of facial recognition.<p>Already, if a person has the motivation and tech aptitude, they can torrent or buy TBs of private records, and cobble together a script to identify passers-by and display a report of their leaked, private details.<p>We are speeding toward a gargantuan privacy train-wreck.
By design, this free chat bot is probably about as good as Eliza (maybe a little better), can help an individual think through issues, and you can talk to it on an offline PC. Nothing is stored, so there is nothing to hack: <a href="https://locserendipity.com/Therapy.html" rel="nofollow">https://locserendipity.com/Therapy.html</a><p>Rogerian version: <a href="https://locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html" rel="nofollow">https://locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html</a>