On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:20:01PM -0600, elijah wright wrote:
> 
> > > I've been asked to place a sniffer on a network that handles HIPPA
> > > data, and watch for e-mail containing certain strings. I figured that
> > > mailsnarf would be the best way to do this.
> > >
> > Aside from any of hte technical details of this, I'm kind of wondering
> > how this fits into HIPPA and it's policies.
> >
> > I'd be sure that if I were you, I'd have written evidence of someone (a
> > boss/supervisor/etc) ordering this kind of behaviour and also my
> > objection to sniffing data that might be confidential under HIPPA.
> 
> sounds like he's being asked to sniff to make SURE that no one is stupid
> enough to email hipaa-covered data out.

Correct.

Tim

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