The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…
  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    We are obviously looking at things like Mythos, which is more sophisticated at finding vulnerabilities. In the next week or so, we will be changing our tack on coding the open and making our code public until we’re on top of that risk.

    Most of our repos, unless they’re essential, will be removed for security reasons.

    Security by obscurity because security vulnerabilities don’t exist if you can’t see them