[LINK] COVIDSafe a few observations

[Stephen Loosley]

Bernard and David write

>> 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.
>
> ... 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

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?”