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		eloisius on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic... It also vastly decreases the feasible number of attackers. Digital records means you are vulnerable to criminals globally, particularly ones from places that don’t care so much about US law. Paper records in the trash are vulnerable to an extremely localized threat.

dredmorbius on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

Quite.

If you can access it from anywhere (or your healthcare provider, other white hats, etc.), so can the black (or grey, or red, or geen,...) hats.

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