All in all the government doesn't seem to be pushing people very hard
to download and use it [The App] or pinning its hopes on the thing.
On 9/5/20 9:09 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
... Perhaps the government is feeling nervous after the NBN, RoboDebt, the
Census, the medical records initiative, penetration of Commonwealth systems
by foreign agents, and various IT project failures, not to mention widely known
problems with the App on iPhone.
On the other hand, and as promised, they have released the source code for
both of their versions fairly speedily here https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe
"released ... fairly speedily"???
13 days after release, after 5m downloads and attempted installations???
It can be safely assumed that sanitisation has occurred before release.
No dead dogs, or dog-kicking apparatus, are likely to be found.
But they've given themselves time to obfuscate anything that they think
prying eyes shouldn't see, and to do so in ways that make it difficult
to confirm that obfuscation has been performed.
Frankly, I *wasn't* all that suspicious. But 13 days?
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And in typical Aussie GitHub fashion, no-one has yet found major problems:
For one example: in the Github Comments .. dgriffith 8 hours ago writes 😊
“So I skimmed it, and while I can see where it generates a UUID and stores that
in it's log, and how it also logs other UIDs, I can't see where it keeps your
mic open and kicks your dog and uploads your entire life history and precise
GPS location to overseas servers. Are we sure this is the right version?”
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