2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden

&gt; I sincerely hope that we fill see massive fines, people lose their jobs, and perhaps some more severe criminal charges brought against those whose negligence caused this.<p>TBH I find this “off with their head” mentality to be counter productive. Sure, if someone broke the law then administer justice. But it’s not addressing the root cause. What systemic weaknesses led to this scenario, and what systemic changes can we make to prevent it from happening again? That’s a much more productive discussion to have, although doesn’t appeal to our baser instincts and so won’t score easy political points.

Medhelp has filed a police report against the reporting paper ComputerSweden late last night:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omni.se&#x2F;medhelp-polisanmaler-tidning-efter-avslojande&#x2F;a&#x2F;8wy6GW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omni.se&#x2F;medhelp-polisanmaler-tidning-efter-avslojand...</a>

What&#x27;s sad is that the CEO seems to be doing his best to provide an accessible explanation to people who understand the technology even less than he does, as if those are the people he needs to answer to. It&#x27;s a real &quot;series of tubes&quot; moment in that it feels unfair to nit-pick what he&#x27;s saying on the level he&#x27;s saying it, but it&#x27;s obvious he doesn&#x27;t understand it on any deeper level, and he doesn&#x27;t understand that the issue needs to be in the hands of someone who does.

&gt; “That someone probably, when updating at some point, seen that there was a free networking cable slot, and I guess they thought, some technician: ‘Aha, there should probably be a cable here, but it fell out [sic]’, and then they have connected a networking cable, so that it’s become connected to the Internet. That is just, like, how you do these things.”<p>Yeah, no, that&#x27;s not how you do these things...

The 10 talking points from the guy who spoke to the press are so terrible I burst out laughing. Government IT incompetence is so terrible all around I find it hard to imagine a way out. Either they do terrible things themselves or outsource it to the lowest bidder who might be slightly less clueless.

I was working on a project for a client in 2002. Our genius project leader, told us to set up a public ftp server... without password. We told him that it was a no solution and super dangerous. As junior devs, in a service company, we were told to simply shut our mouth and do what was ordered. The server was instantly found but they only started to use it during the week-end as a porn server. The hosting company was on fire. This leader is now a director. hehe

I had to call the emergency due to intense toothache in the middle of the night two years ago. Am I affected and was my call leaked?!

&quot;55 files have been downloaded from the drive, “many of them duplicates”&quot; - I laughed pretty hard at &quot;duplicates&quot;

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19191241" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19191241</a><p>It was discussed

on one hand, pretty terrible.<p>on the other hand one could analyse all the calls and provide a helpful medical bot.