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[edent@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 I'm not a Republican.
This isn't about access to data. It is about source code security.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Edent

Forgive my snarky remarks.

My hashtag isn't directed at your post but at the public officials fostering these policies of obsequious compliance.

The moneyed interests behind deliberate source code insecurity policies have their own agenda.

Security of data and data sovereignty are threats to those interests.

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@Edent true, but I do wonder what influence they are having on other areas now their evil foot is in the door. Still very sad to see this, it’s a shame that open source is not even more valued in these times.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@NineStonesClose as I say in the post, you should write to your MP about the matter. Let them know how you feel about it.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 understood. But we don't have Republicans in the UK (other than the anti-monarchy lot).

What did your MP say when you wrote to them about it?

[damonhd@mastodon.social]

@Edent email and SMS done...

[edent@mastodon.social]

@DamonHD much obliged!

[madduci@mastodon.social]

@Edent this is huge

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@Edent @NineStonesClose Not sure how you can say this. Surely any software security breach would be undertaken with the aim of exfiltrating NHS data about patients. Exactly the data Palantir and their ilk would like to have.

I would say it is almost certain that the people who have made this decision would have been cowed into it by 'advice' that open source software leaves the door open to the data sets.

[g1dzp@mastodon.social]

@Edent why on earth would they do that??! Madness. I can only guess someone has a vested interest...

[vasundhar@infosec.exchange]

@Edent For not patching and auditing their systems they lost, they did not learn a thing or two

[iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social]

I’m based in Scotland. Does this decision apply UK-wide, or England only?

@Edent

[dm_ronin@mstdn.social]

@Edent email sent, even offered to discuss this. now waiting for response...

[edent@mastodon.social]

@iamdavidobrien as I understand it, this is NHS England. That said, you should write to your MSP to ensure NHS Scotland doesn't do the same.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@Edent
Starmer is Labour's worst leader. In history, and that includes Blair.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@kevinrns ok. But that has nothing to do with the blog post. This isn't a PM level decision.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@falken I thought that was part of https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/organisation-data-service-ord ?

[iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social]

Not sure the NHS in Scotland had the same setup, but will do.

@Edent

[noyes@mastodon.online]

@Edent

Almost certainly too late.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@Edent oof that's disappointing.