I’m based in Scotland. Does this decision apply UK-wide, or England only?
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@Edent you can't even download a list of hospitals any more!
@Edent For not patching and auditing their systems they lost, they did not learn a thing or two
@Edent why on earth would they do that??! Madness. I can only guess someone has a vested interest...
@Edent have you considered asking your Mastodon admins to moderate signups so people can't use your server for spam?
"NHS sides with Trump billionaires to increase dependency on ghouls like Peter Thiel, despite national security risks & associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
National Security Vulnerabilities deliberately promoted."
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/palantir-nhs-uk-ai-contract-b2967483.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c393w38lv3mo
https://www.ft.com/content/1ac7a046-329c-4036-b01e-f2291dde28ca
https://archive.ph/rFIqN
Cautionary Tale: Trump orders access denials
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions
@Npars01 I'm not a Republican.
This isn't about access to data. It is about source code security.
Forgive my snarky remarks.
The moneyed interests behind deliberate source code insecurity policies have their own agenda.
Security of data and data sovereignty are threats to those interests.
@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?
@Edent this will be the Palantir influence. Disgraceful and sad.
@NineStonesClose no. This is about source code and security. Not datasets.
@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.
@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.
@NineStonesClose as I say in the post, you should write to your MP about the matter. Let them know how you feel about it.
“There are thousands of NHS repositories on GitHub. The work undertaken to assess all of them and then close them will be massive. And for what?”
“Even if we ignore the impracticality of closing all the code - it is too late! All that code has already been slurped up. If Mythos really is the ultimate hacker, hiding the code now does nothing. It has likely already retained copies of the repositories.”
”And if it were both practical and effective to hide source code - that doesn't matter. These AI tools are just as effective against closed-source. They can analyse binaries and probe websites with ease.”
“There are tens of thousands of NHS website pages which refer to their GitHub repos - will they all need to be updated? What's the cost of that?”
