'World-beating' test-and-trace system

 
I am guessing the system is designed by oracle? They designed the legal aid programme which is woeful. It took about two years to get a reasonable service from it. It still crashes and recently was off line for two weeks. It’s so user unfriendly it is untrue. The legal aid agency know it takes longer than paper applications but have admitted the budget has been blown and there is nothing else they can do.
 
Pretty much all out sourced public sector IT systems are an absolute disaster. A lot of the bureaucracy in this country is absolutely rotten. It's wrong to just look at the party politics at the top. That's just the crap flavoured icing on a cake made of ****.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Pretty much all out sourced public sector IT systems are an absolute disaster. A lot of the bureaucracy in this country is absolutely rotten. It's wrong to just look at the party politics at the top. That's just the crap flavoured icing on a cake made of ****.
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Ask yourself why that would be the case Sheriff? Maybe if you hand contracts to companies based on their party contributions you aint doing your job.
 
Laughing said:
Ask yourself why that would be the case Sheriff? Maybe if you hand contracts to companies based on their party contributions you aint doing your job.
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I don't see most of the people involved in handing out contracts being influenced by this. Public sector IT has been absolute b***ks regardless of which party is in power.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
I don't see most of the people involved in handing out contracts being influenced by this. Public sector IT has been absolute b***ks regardless of which party is in power.
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Yeah, see I do see exactly that happening. Though to be fair Serco have been a supplier to the government for about 20 years. I am not sure who added them to the preffered supplier list.
 
Heres a previous summary of GCHQ Data-Gathering which has increased in sophistication and scope year on year:

Source: International Business Times.

Here is a list of some of the most intrusive programs we've noticed on the list:

HACIENDA – A port-scanning tool designed to scan an entire country or city, using GEOFUSION to identify IP locations. Banners and content are pulled back on certain ports. Content is put into the EARTHLING database, and all other scanned data is sent to GNE and is available through GLOBAL SURGE and Fleximart.
AIRWOLF – Collect Youtube profile, comment and video collection.
SYLVESTER – Framework for automated interaction/ alias management on online social networks
FATYAK – Public data collection from LinkedIn.
GESTATOR – Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (YouTube).
TRACER FIRE – An Office document that grabs the target's machine info, files, logs etc and posts it back to the GCHQ.
BOMB DAY – The capability to increase website hits/rankings.
CHINESE FIRECRACKER – Overt brute login attempts against online forums.
SILVER SPECTOR – Allows batch Nmap scanning over TOR.
ANGRY PIRATE –A tool that will permanently disable a target's account on their computer.
CLEAN SWEEP –Masquerade Facebook wall posts for individuals or entire countries.
ROLLING THUNDER –Distributed denial of service using P2P. Built by ICTR, deployed by JTRIG.
SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE – Perfect spoofing of emails from Blackberry targets.
PREDATORS FACE – Targeted Denial of Service against Web Servers.
VIPERS TONGUE –A tool that will silently put Denial of Service calls on a satellite phone or GSM phone.
GLITTER BALL – Online gaming capabilities for sensitive operations. Currently Second Life.
SODAWATER – A tool for regularly downloading Gmail messages and forwarding them onto CERBERUS mailboxes.
SILVER LORD – Disruption of video-based websites hosting extremist content through concerted target discovery and content removal.
 
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