What do you mean 'free from'? In breach of? Entirely possible. Governments **** up and break their own rules all the time.
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Are the other apps really tried and tested? This is all in its infancy. Let's say they used the Apple/Google app - you know full well they'd have been slaughtered by the same people slaughtering them for this app. "Government sells our data to big corporates" etc etc. Whichever way they try to track and trace was always going to be beset by a "They're tracking us man" attitude. Initially the seeds of discourse were spread by the very people questioning the logic of a lockdown. It has snowballed from there.
The question is whether it is completely anonymised. The tweet I posted above (and countless others I have seen) seem to indicate that it might not be. If it isn't then gdpr rules still apply and the CEO of nhsx not being able to tell us who has access to the data makes it a non-starter.
Have you asked yourself why they didn't go the other direction? A purely contact tracing app based on the dp-3t protocol? Why was threatening the integrity and therefore success of the app worth having postcode data on self-diagnosed symptomatic users.
It's entirely possible that they may breach GDPR. It's entirely possible they may not. The Sourcecode has been available for 15 hours, has been tested by Pen Testing groups, and I haven't seen anything yet that rings alarm bells. But, because some people who have IT qualifications suggest it is completely vulnerable to attack and abuse (before seeing the sourcecode) - we must believe them because of their qualifications? That is flawed.
Hopefully these qualified people that you rely so heavily on (despite not knowing anything of their past, I've looked at a few of your Twitter links and can see these people, historically, cry foul with practically every Government app) can use their skills to pinpoint the elements of code that prove that they are getting access to data in addition to that which is wilfully supplied. Once they've done that, I'll take a look and probably decide not to download the app if it is too intrusive. Can't say fairer than that now.
It "might not be" anonymised. The sourcecode is now available and that will soon be proven or disproven I suppose.
As for the postcode data being collected - they ask for the first half of your postcode. Mine is NP10. Now you know who I am!
On the dp-3t protocol - this has also sparked uproar in Europe for privacy concerns. Maybe the App developers were acting on that response?
Well, I never expected to see you turn on TLG so quickly after all of the sucking up we saw you do during rebrand/boycotting years you spent on here together.
It must be like meeting your hero and them ignoring you - so you start to resent them and slag them off due to the hurt that they've caused you.
Sad (as in 'pitiful') and hilarious in equal measure.
Are those my own words? Or, are those my misinterpreted words?
The other protocol in use has sparked privacy fears and warnings in Europe. I am merely acknowledging that whichever app path they decided to go down, they would have been met by the same resistance and from the exact same group of people.
For example, would Eric Cartman download the app if suddenly the app developers said "We are moving to a decentralised system"?
You've said whichever path they went down, they would have been met by the same resistance. That's pretty much what you said in your earlier reply to me. In other words, regardless of what app was offered, the same people would have had concerns.
So why did we bother? What was the point in wasting money on it? I'm still nonethewiser.
This probably makes more sense to you than it does to me, I think it comes from the quirky nature of this board where everyone usually agrees but, if someone disagrees, then they must be the exact same person who disagreed with us the last time. It stems from the fact I have not been following Cardiff fortunes closely recently because of long standing family issues.
Regardless, this isn't me "turning" on anyone. It's me pointing out the lack of critical thinking being applied in the flat refusal to download an app. You, like the Lone Gunman, can turn it into an ad hominem attack if you like. You both have the same habit of popping up in threads and taking them off topic. If I applied the same primary school level of critical thinking that you have applied to me, I would come to the natural conclusion that you and The Lone Gunman are the exact same people. I mean, it really isn't possible for more than one person to disagree with us is it?
Hopefully your next post in this thread is on topic because I wouldn't want to ignore yet another person (or maybe the same person) for trolling.
After 4 failed attempts to get an answer, only to be met by further questions and attempts to confuse matters and be argumentative by yourself, I'll bow out at this point, before I get the hair dryer treatment. There's only so much banging of head against a wall I'll do.
What is your qualification to speak as an authority on this?
I have spent taken my lead from academics and qualified people to help me decide whether I support the UK app or not. Now, that might be flawed but I haven't seen you cite anything other than official government literature which I think is at least equally flawed considering the attack on privacy of the last few years.
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever this virus would have been eliminated if wed all observed the 2 metre and social distancing rules.
Less deaths yeah.
Now if theyd acted sooner rather than that contain or control phase bollox and everyone observed the social distancing.
Then maybe it would have been controlled.
But there was disastrous leadership which has continued.
There have been talk about firms getting contracts that have been used by Dominic Cummings.
Is this App free of Cummings connections?
To highlight why the back end source code needs to be released I thought it best to provide an otherwise pretty neutral/complimentary take on the app.
https://reincubate.com/blog/nhs-covi...acing-details/
The key part being:
"Ultimately, the code suggests there's little technical privacy risk from using the app until such time as a user reports symptoms and contacts the NHS to arrange a test. At that point, their test result would be managed by the NHS, though this isn't any different with or without the app. However, at such time as multiple users come into contact, report symptoms and arrange tests using the identifier that the app has provided them, it may or may not be possible to centrally tie them together. That's a back-end question, and as NHSX states on their app privacy report, code is truth in this regard."
Looks like the Government read this board https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...d-google-model
Hang on, this current account had a few more weeks to run, you have spoilt the surprise now
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Called him out on being Jirga weeks ago, Matt. He can never hide his identity for too long as he can't resist falling into his old habits.
He hates this messageboard yet can't resist crawling back every time that he's banned to get some attention... bless his cotton socks.
Again, this is based on the flawless principle that only one person can have this one emotion. I don't dislike the board, I find it highly amusing that at a time of talking of herd immunity,we get a herd mentality instead. Interestingly, I am not the only one who is accused of being, as the Beatles once sang, Some Other Guy. I often find people are quick to accuse others of behaviour they actually partake in. I think I asked if you had evidence I was Some Other Guy, but you couldn't provide anything then. Maybe you can now.
What I have asked here, a number of times, is why is the site "Not secure", and why are cookies downloaded even when users explicitly select the option to not have cookies downloaded?
I was hoping the thread could stay on topic, it isn't difficult to do that surely? Start a new thread and ask me the question there, or send me a PM. I'll answer it there. I said the grown-ups were talking about the app, you were talking about the app earlier in the thread, ergo you are a grown up.
I think this would be more apt in this case.
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Is there much more to add to this thread? (serious question) It seems that people will make their choices based on the information at hand, their lifestyles and no doubt political beliefs. You're asking the same questions in my opinion. How many answers are there?
You think that you asked me for evidence... but you definitely didn't. Other than scouring through all of your aliases' posts to show how identical they are on tone and content (and the fact that you've got so much history of having multiple accounts on here), I can't give you anything more.
Sorry, you're not kidding anyone, Jirga. That's ok though, it's your choice to pretend you're someone else if it makes you feel better and I will stop calling you out on it if it's making you upset.
I just can't get into the mindset of someone who has repeatedly disparaged the messageboard, it's mods, a large majority of it's posters, the fans of the club which the messageboard is aimed at (and the club in general) would want to keep coming back here after being banned and pretend to be someone else. It seems like an unhealthy obsession and a bit weird, to be honest.
Like I said... If it makes you happy then carry on regardless, I'll stop calling you out.
Take care.
So, no evidence? Apart from me and this other person both write in English? You've nailed it son.
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