Dear Customers,
I want to help your truly protect your systems. And by that I mean I want you to finally maturally recognize that you need to take better care of all of our data as patients and users of your systems.
Today, your systems are not secure. The problem is the platforms you choose to run on, which include AWS and Microsoft Azure are not secure enough for mission critical systems.
The new licensing terms for the next Iguana 6 release will be free. There is no payment required.
However, the licensing terms will make it very clear that you are not allowed to run it on AWS Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud. The Iguana 6 code will only be allowed to run on systems that can provably meet a higher level of security than any of these systems.
All customers using the new secure Iguana 6 will need a signed copy of the new licensing terms otherwise they will be breaking international and regional laws regarding my intellectual property.
All existing Iguana 6 customers are put on notice that they are essentially running versions of Iguana 6 which are not up to date and as secure as they need to be.
Because Iguana 6 is a messy legacy code base, I will not release the source code assuming I am safe and free. Let me qualify that. Every competing product, including Rhapsody, Cloverleaf, Mirth, Redox, and every other competitive product in the market, has worse code quality than Iguana 6.
I know the laws of Canada and the USA do not allow me to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is why I am making the personal sacrifice of restricting my own freedom of movement to the Cayman Islands.
I am not here to avoid taxes. I am here to protect my right to free speech as I see it. To say the things that need to be said, not the things that people want to hear. I have been planning to do this for a very long time.
Iguana is the only healthcare interface engine that allows customers to run high speed transactional data. Because this data is patient health information (PHI), it needs to be treated with the highest respect. This respect is missing with most of our customer implementations.
One poorly written line opens the entire engine up for security loop holes. This is not acceptable to me. At some point I will be insisting on a code review of every Iguana instance to validate that the code has been written in a secure way.
No one will be allowed to use my platforms moving forward without meeting this requirement at some point.
I open to exploring how this can be done in a manner that scales practically and does not violate the integrity of patient data. But other than this, there will be no flexibility on this requirement.
Patient data is simply too precious to treat in any other way.
Eliot Muir
Founder and CEO of iNTERFACEWARE.
Architect of Iguana
