Infringo ergo sum
Fabio Massacci · 2010
Once upon a time a professor of computing and a father was complaining at a radiology ward. A CD with the X-rays of his son's chest had garbled images. Unfortunately, the CD burning process has been outsourced and, in compliance with e-health security policies, technicians could not see the images on the system. Only doctors could. The nurse had a decision to make: sidestep the father (send him away with empty hands to the pneumology ward) or sidestep the system (give the technician the doctor's password and thus the ability to access all images and not just this one). As a father he was happy of her decision. As a professor, this knowledge was of meager and unsatisfactory kind.