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rkozik1989 • today at 1:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So I worked for a company who's product was sensor networks for this exact situation, and the European company who bought us had a cloud-only solution they wanted to replace our on-premise product with. Thankfully most hospitals and research institutions in the states are smart enough to reject cloud-based solutions for this exact reason. In theory you could penetrate our systems but it would have to be a very direct, specific attack to be able to do it. My colleague in Germany has been an SWE contractor since 1978 and is genuinely the best engineer I've ever worked with. No matter how off the wall my ideas were he'd already considered it and eliminated it as an option.


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esseph • today at 2:00 PM

> Thankfully most hospitals and research institutions in the states are smart enough to reject cloud-based solutions for this exact reason.

I have some news for you. If a hospital WAN goes down, most of them are in deep shit