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Sounds like there is no intention to deliver the source on release, and once the release has been out for a couple of weeks, the benefit of public review of the source code drastically diminishes.

The source code should be released before the public release of the binaries, not after, and not doing so means they're trying to hide what the app does from timely public discourse.

Releasing a tarball (even if it lacks the tools to build it) isn't that hard, is it?




Just to update for anyone time travellers that arrive here in the future, the source came out on day of the binary "going live" to the public

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA

https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA




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