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1 day agoI was seeing patient names, room numbers, and reason for admission. Not always, but often enough.


I was seeing patient names, room numbers, and reason for admission. Not always, but often enough.


Most pager systems are actually huge privacy violations. $20 for a software defined radio dongle and a few minutes will give you plaintext pager notifications for hospitals across your state.
Did a project on it when I was breaking into cybersecurity.
There are encrypted paging setups, but there’s a lot of places still running legacy.


I left my job over moral objections coming up on a year ago. Hundreds of interviews later, still unemployed. I don’t regret my decision, but I’m lucky enough to have a support system. Otherwise, I’d be out of luck.
That’s just what I received on my receiver. I’m not affiliated with the hospital at all, so no clue why they were doing it that way.