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TWeaK@lemmy.today 1 day agoIt’s worse than that.
You have to run a government app on your phone. The tracking device in your pocket that goes with you everywhere, that must run government code.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
I trust an app made by the British government than anyone else. Hopefully they don’t subcontract it out. The British government has been known for making some things FOSS, like gov.uk
Tamo240@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Of course they won’t make it in house, they’ll contract some company to do it as cheap as possible, and it will run like hot garbage and probably have a tone of bugs and security vulnerabilities.
Remember the track and trace app they spent £10 Billion on?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Ironically the Northern Ireland track and trace app was fine… A bit ridiculous how that app was devolved