* Posts by olderbutnowiser

3 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Nov 2019

Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings

olderbutnowiser

Re: "Understand the technicalities in a way I couldn't do"

Anyone with a good A level in maths, a Stem degree, a job as a secondary school maths teacher, .... would have understood exponential growth well enough to see that exponential growth plus a lethality of 1% means trouble. That's probably million people able to explain it to the Prime Minister. Why on earth isn't one out of that million actually Prime Minister?

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

olderbutnowiser
WTF?

This is one of those articles published on April 1 which you read very carefully and then admire the chutzpah and humour of the journalist. Except that it isn't. Hence Icon.

If there isn't anyone anywhere in the Civil Service who can find a self-hosted video conferencing tool, running on a server in a govt datacentre, with TLS security between punter and server, then I'm pretty astonished. If there isn't such a system around already, I'm even more astonished. Just try googling open-source video conferencing tools: there's some out there.

But I can see why they went for Zoom. Setup and use is idiot-proof.

Email! HUH! Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing...

olderbutnowiser

Re: What a string of cockups

So who runs a mailing list and doesn't add themselves (and their private hotmail address - this was the 90s) to it, so that they can see exactly what their customer sees? Did it arrive? It sounds like there's more guilty parties (including every single person who ever posted a marketing message) here than just the IT dept.