Hi Helen,

if I understand you well, I have a steel armor archive cabinet on wheels 
without a rear wall. Approved by all security agencies (NSA etc) and several 
other criminal organizations. And, I even didn’t know. ;)

I have contacted them, the supplier / developer (not vendor) and the 
certification body. Waiting for their reactions.
It is possible to sent you a personal mail? Uncleared ist my problem with the 
chip card.

Marc.

PS: read also the mail of [email protected]

Am 05.01.2014 um 11:16 schrieb Helen Borrie <[email protected]>:

> At 05:25 p.m. 5/01/2014, Marc Hakman wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am running a professional commercial practice information system, based on 
> >firebird in Germany. The system is certified by the german health agencies.
> >
> >
> >Problem?
> >The firebird account name and pasword are NOT changed.
> 
> Ouch!!
> 
> >The government is rolling out a patient chip card with the possibility to 
> >exchange the basic patients data with their social security health assurance 
> >agency by WAN. Is there a possibility for them to get access to (other) 
> >patient files (so the complete database) through a backdoor, e.g. via the 
> >admin account? 
> 
> The whole world knows 'masterkey' as the installation password for SYSDBA. 
> Its *only* purpose is to provide access to the SYSDBA to set his own password 
> at installation time.
> 
> >Is there another way?
> 
> If the SYSDBA password is 'masterkey' (or anything starting with 'masterke') 
> then change it NOW, to something very obscure. (You have 8 characters, not 9).
> 
> >Is it a security risk not changing the account name and pw?
> 
> See above. But do you know about users and SQL permissions?
> 
> >I am not paranoia, just concerned about my business and even more the 
> >medical confidentiality.
> 
> If you are saying that you deploy this software with only one user - SYSDBA - 
> then you have a serious problem. (SYSDBA should be used only for 
> administering databases). If it is deployed with SYSDBA + 'masterkey' then 
> you have a VERY serious problem, that should not have been passed by the 
> certification authority.
> 
> Helen Borrie, Support Consultant, IBPhoenix (Pacific)
> Author of "The Firebird Book" and "The Firebird Book Second Edition"
> http://www.firebird-books.net
> __________________________________________________________ 
> 
> 
> 

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