[tor-talk] Could Tor be used for health informatics?

[Spencer]

Hi,

>>> 
>>> Paul Templeton:
>>> peer to peer data exchange system controlled
>>> by the consumer via public keys & .onion addresses.
>>> 

Yay!

>>> 
>>> Practitioner DB would have permissions to
>>> access data based on customer request.
>>> 

Flip this ^

People share health information with practitioners; this can exist in 
many forms, e.g., a push of selected info from patient to practitioner 
that dies after set time.

Think inspector gadget.

Practitioner only gets temporary/limited privileges (:

>> 
>> Seth David Schoen:
>> crypto
>> 

Is needed to protect against intruders, which is outside much of the 
potential user-base context.

However, https is still a use-case to be designed for, as the .onion 
experience needs some more tlc.

Tor Browser and some OpenPGP keys may be enough.

P2P cuts out the potentially malicious middlemen, though.

>> 
>> location anonymity
>> 

Is relevant for domestic issues that overlap with healthcare.

>> 
>> latency
>> 

Can be justified with education as the main trade-off, and is next to 
non-existent in the locations with large population clusters, especially 
here in the .kr (:

> 
> Nathan Freitas:
> operational security outweighs crypto
> 

+1

> 
> https://github.com/n8fr8/talks/blob/master/onion_things/Internet%20of%20Onion%20Things.pdf
> 

Wonderful!

Wordlife,
Spencer