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		garfieldnate on Oct 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat A... Why are hospital systems connected to the public internet, anyway? Wouldn't it make more sense to have all of the life-or-death stuff on its own secure network?

deepsun on Oct 30, 2020 [–]

Very expensive to put and maintain separate cables, kinda separate internet.

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