

I 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.
You don’t even need to go near the speed of light. Modern gps satellites already have to account for relativity. It wouldn’t be seeing yourself significantly older, but it’s a measurable distinction.
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.