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Barry Kissane's avatar

Thanks for the thorough analysis. The Australian government app was completely useless and a shameful waste of money. (It required people to leave Bluetooth on (flattening their battery) and needed to be running on top of apps. - apart from all the other fundamental problems). Embarrassingly bad.

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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Thanks for this eye-opening expose. I think the pre-test probability of this working was zero anyway - no large scale government IT attempt has ever been successful. The post office saga where the computer glitches resulted in the unwarranted imprisonment of postmasters should be at the front of everyone in the UK's mind whenever the government proposes anything like this..

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