Hospital gave sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure

Posted by Bender 4 hours ago

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Comment by origini 2 hours ago

I fixed a 'dirty' pc in a small office with 3 people. The offender was one of the two bosses, the other one did not like that.

I added porn filter on there router.

Comment by Havoc 2 hours ago

If you hang out in the sysadmin subreddit for a bit you’ll see this a lot. Medical shops somehow have the strictest regulations (HIPAA) yet are the worst run dysfunctional orgs

Comment by dclavijo 2 hours ago

Watching porn is like doing sex, you should be doing it safely instead of trying to ban it. Education is always the best tool.

Comment by tannenfreund87 28 minutes ago

How about doing both not at work? You can have as much sex as you want and watch as much porn as you want, but please outside of your work environment.

Comment by pajamasam 1 hour ago

A doctor needs to be educated how to watch porn at work?

Comment by account42 1 hour ago

Would have been a lot cheaper than cleaning up afterwards all the time.

Comment by everybodyknows 2 hours ago

What are the usual attack vectors for that?

Comment by tmerc 2 hours ago

I haven't done help desk work since I was in college. I would guess the attack vectors are the same since then. Stupidity (clicking a fake system dialogue, etc. user intentionally did x but didn't realize that it was), JavaScript exploits (drive by downloads, etc), and maybe less commonly torrented or downloaded content containing malware. 1 and 2 are hard to distinguish once infected and are only really caught off your checking history or DNS queries. 3 has the benefit of occasionally being caught by another system before the user gets a bad download.

Comment by beeforpork 1 hour ago

What was the sickness of the doctor? Does the article tell so? Or does it imply that endulging in adult entertainment is -- ahem -- sick?

Comment by kotaKat 2 hours ago

Yep. Happens all the time in healthcare IT. "The doctor is one of our multi-million-dollar revenue generators, so we let it slide" is the excuse. Every time.

I've personally written up a chief radiologist before for it. Zero action, because "he made the facility $6m+ last year" in rural nowhere.

It was actually one of the helpdesk's interview questions - "how do you handle responding to a doctor whose machine is full of porn?"

No wonder years later they got slammed by ransomware.

Comment by rationalist 21 minutes ago

Was the correct answer, "Ask my supervisor?"

Comment by kotaKat 7 minutes ago

Partially! Fight Club. Never make any assumptions to the doctor. It's not their porn, it's somehow porn.

Silently document/log it including evidence and report it to your supervisor.

The project manager, when he was a PFY on the desk, made assumptions to the doctor. The angriest doctor on staff. I'm surprised he's still alive to this day after that, let alone in the C-suite now.