Hospital gave sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure(www.theregister.com)
13 pointsby Bender4 hours ago6 comments
  • origini2 hours ago
    I fixed a 'dirty' pc in a small office with 3 people. The offender was one of the two bosses, the other one did not like that.

    I added porn filter on there router.

  • dclavijoan hour ago
    Watching porn is like doing sex, you should be doing it safely instead of trying to ban it. Education is always the best tool.
    • pajamasaman hour ago
      A doctor needs to be educated how to watch porn at work?
      • account4224 minutes ago
        Would have been a lot cheaper than cleaning up afterwards all the time.
  • Havoc2 hours ago
    If you hang out in the sysadmin subreddit for a bit you’ll see this a lot. Medical shops somehow have the strictest regulations (HIPAA) yet are the worst run dysfunctional orgs
  • everybodyknows2 hours ago
    What are the usual attack vectors for that?
    • tmercan hour ago
      I haven't done help desk work since I was in college. I would guess the attack vectors are the same since then. Stupidity (clicking a fake system dialogue, etc. user intentionally did x but didn't realize that it was), JavaScript exploits (drive by downloads, etc), and maybe less commonly torrented or downloaded content containing malware. 1 and 2 are hard to distinguish once infected and are only really caught off your checking history or DNS queries. 3 has the benefit of occasionally being caught by another system before the user gets a bad download.
  • beeforpork16 minutes ago
    What was the sickness of the doctor? Does the article tell so? Or does it imply that endulging in adult entertainment is -- ahem -- sick?
  • kotaKat2 hours ago
    Yep. Happens all the time in healthcare IT. "The doctor is one of our multi-million-dollar revenue generators, so we let it slide" is the excuse. Every time.

    I've personally written up a chief radiologist before for it. Zero action, because "he made the facility $6m+ last year" in rural nowhere.

    It was actually one of the helpdesk's interview questions - "how do you handle responding to a doctor whose machine is full of porn?"

    No wonder years later they got slammed by ransomware.