[Mariner]

The author makes an assumption not in evidence: He assumes that computer is connected to a network and that network connected to the internet in some unsecure fashion.

Those facts would also have to be true to be an HiPPA violation.

[Delta 21]

"...assumes that computer is connected to a network and that network connected to the internet in some unsecure fashion....'

The Cankles Team know all about that stuff.