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From: dheap@gara.une.oz ( PSYS)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: A new risk ? (Was Re: Morris, the law, and his state of mind)
Summary: Has the Morris worm exposed a greater risk?
Keywords: Patient monitoring, risks
Message-ID: <486@gara.une.oz>
Date: 14 Nov 88 02:12:39 GMT
References: <552@comdesign.CDI.COM> <1570@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: dheap@gara.UUCP (Dave Heap - PSYS)
Organization: Uni. of New England, Armidale, NSW.
Lines: 18

In article <1570@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> deke@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian) writes:
>
>The medical center/teaching hospital at my university is also network
>connected.  What if the network overload caused patient monitoring systems
>there to be sluggish and inadequate?

	Do you really mean that you have critical patient monitoring systems
running on a user accessible system, subject to clogging & vagaries from
other users, apart from net viruses? I hope you have made a mistake with
this statement, or else it's a first class candidate for comp.risks



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Dave Heap              	         ACSNET: dheap@gara.une.oz                  
Psychology Department,           UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!gara.une.oz!dheap  
University of New England,       ARPA: dheap%gara.une.oz@uunet.uu.net       
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia