The Government did a dramatic u-turn on its NHS contact tracing app yesterday – throwing in the towel on developing its own and switching to the more privacy focused Apple-Google model.
We’ve seen this coming for weeks and it’s a move the security community has urged since the beginning. Looking at GitHub, there were some fundamental – and serious – failings in security and privacy that doomed this project from the start.
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@Richard Cassidy, Senior Director of Security Strategy , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"What we have here is a classic disconnect between the developer and security worlds. ..."
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@Richard Cassidy, Senior Director of Security Strategy , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"What we have here is a classic disconnect between the developer and security worlds. ..."
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