X-Message-Number: 986 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 09:35:21 EDT From: (Perry E. Metzger) Subject: CRYONICS: Slips in security? Incidentally, this prudence applies at all levels. Recently, one of the people who works full-time at Riverside casually mentioned to me the name of the member from Southern California who was frozen a few weeks ago. This was confidential information and should never have been given out. The fact that it happened so easily and casually suggests to me that it may happen at other times, too. --Charles Platt I doubt this happens with any degree of frequency. I've seen Tanya and Ralph (the only two full time Alcor folks I've been in the presence of for a prolonged period of time) be extraordinarily anal retentive about giving out NO information on suspension patients; indeed, Tanya said at one point that her current policy was not even to confirm or deny the presense of Walt Disney in Alcor's tanks, and we all know that Walt isn't there. If someone mentioned a name to you, Charles, I suspect that it was likely an accident, possibly because of the extraordinary stress the whole Riverside crew has been under for the last month. Remember, people occassionally slip, and one event does not a statistical study make. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt; they are a great bunch of people and haven't had much rest lately. Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=986