Comments on: USB Thumb-drives: Just a Bad Idea for PHRs http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/08/26/usb-thumb-drives-just-a-bad-idea-for-phrs/ Providing perspective on key IT trends in the healthcare sector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: michael http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/08/26/usb-thumb-drives-just-a-bad-idea-for-phrs/#comment-2632 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:41:05 +0000 http://hitanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-2632 The problem identified in the report is not USB devices per-se, but that fact that the use of the particular devices examined *requires* running software included on the device to view the data stored on the device.

Thus, the vulnerability is due to running potentially untrustworthy software. If. instead.

Such a vulnerability should not exist if the USB device is merely a thumb drive used for transferring data from one system to another. (Assuming of course that these systems take the essential security steps of disabling auto-run.)

]]> By: misstrade http://chilmarkresearch.com/2008/08/26/usb-thumb-drives-just-a-bad-idea-for-phrs/#comment-1263 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:22:34 +0000 http://hitanalyst.wordpress.com/?p=411#comment-1263 However Biometric Proximity Based Technologies make total sense. Coming very soon to a PHR near you!
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