[LINK] itN: 'COVIDSafe code released, but developers unhappy'

[Christian Heinrich]

Roger,

On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 09:33, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
> Open source software engineer Geoffrey Huntley formed a group of tech
> experts to analyse the COVIDSafe app when it was first released more
> than two weeks ago. The group was able to scrutinise the source code
> before it was publicly released by reverse engineering the Android version.
>
> Mr Huntley said the group uncovered a number of bugs and security
> vulnerabilities, with some posing a significant threat to privacy. But
> he said he has struggled to contact the government over these issues,
> and none have been fixed despite COVIDSafe being given an update last
> week, which Mr Huntley said was just a “new coat of paint”.

These bugs, etc were never discussed within
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dN99ljgD4, rather Geoff Huntley sang
its praises for privacy et al.


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Regards,
Christian Heinrich

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