Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spencer Cheng: I don't trust "The iCloud" at this point in its technical-evolution and marketing-hype! Your observation of "fairly safe" renders the obvious inescapable for me at the moment. I do appreciate your thoughts and suppose my confession of distrust in this context is the clarification you needed. Thanks Spencer! Dr. Leon Pomeroy, Northern Virginia, USA Re: "Can you clarify your question? If you are filling out a form/template on your iPad with some data and synching the data later back to your computer (PC or Mac) via a USB cable later, you don't need encryption since nothing is transmitted over the air. If you are using iCloud to do your synchronization, your data is fairly safe. Whether iCloud storage can meet HIPPA requirements is a different question for which I don't have an answer to. Figuring out the answer to that question is expensive. If what you are worried about is loosing your iPad, the simplest solution is to put a PIN lock on your iPad and enable the "10 wrong PIN guesses, erase content of iPad" option. That should protect against casual thieves accessing your patient data. If the NSA/FBI is after the data on your iPad, just give them the PIN. ;-) Regards, Spencer"