Post by Dub on Mar 19, 2024 9:55:42 GMT -5
There is no practical way to do business today that avoids the risk of becoming a victim of a hacking assault. No matter how carefully we protect our own information, we can’t guarantee that the IT people at the companies that serve us will do the same. Often, in industry, the best intentions of IT people are not implemented because doing so doesn’t directly generate profit for the company. Very few companies strive for air-tight data security. Things like disaster recovery and secure data access are expensive to do properly so implementation is often half-assed relying instead on the odds against something going wrong. As we see every day, executives and boards of directors are driven by perceived financial results, not by the safety of their customers.
I used to use a Phillips CPAP until the big recall. But my personal information was never in their hands. The people with that information are the medical supply companies that actually provide the devices. Some of these are local businesses and some are nationwide suppliers. The one I’m currently using is Rotech.
The best we can do is make sure we have a separate, long, complex password for every Web site and account where we might log in and be sure to change each one every few months. Be very careful with calls and texts, as we’ve talked about here and wherever possible, use PayPal, ApplePay, or the Android equivalent rather than provide personal account numbers to each business you deal with.
I used to use a Phillips CPAP until the big recall. But my personal information was never in their hands. The people with that information are the medical supply companies that actually provide the devices. Some of these are local businesses and some are nationwide suppliers. The one I’m currently using is Rotech.
The best we can do is make sure we have a separate, long, complex password for every Web site and account where we might log in and be sure to change each one every few months. Be very careful with calls and texts, as we’ve talked about here and wherever possible, use PayPal, ApplePay, or the Android equivalent rather than provide personal account numbers to each business you deal with.
