dheap@gara.une.oz ( PSYS) (11/14/88)
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 -- 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
deke@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian) (11/15/88)
In article <486@gara.une.oz> dheap@gara.UUCP (Dave Heap - PSYS) writes: >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 No, what I REALLY mean is that you only partially quoted me and are now extrapolating. The only mistake was the interpretation you imposed on what I said. My point is, and was, the "worm" cannot be considered harmless unless the author KNEW it would do no harm. He couldn't have known that, and neither could anyone else. ^Deke Kassabian, deke@ee.rochester.edu or ur-valhalla!deke Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627 (+1 716-275-3106)