waterishail's comments

On: The security behind the NHS contact tracing app

[waterishail]

The Information Commisioner needs to sign off on this.

It would be entirely possible for someone like google or facebook with tons of location data to turn those anonymous ids into real people.

On: Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19

[waterishail]

Also it can do multiple tests so it makes it easier to distinguish exactly what you have.

On: Addressing Spotify’s Claims

[waterishail]

Nice side stepping there on apple music not paying fees to apple store and advertising from within the app as well as offering in app subscriptions and tighter integration with other apple services that outside developers do not have.

On: As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bil...

[waterishail]

I'm reminded of this article - http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/4/the-eternal-cost-s...

Netflix run a spot market for instances to drive down costs for exactly the reasons mentioned here

On: UK Home Office Repositories

[waterishail]

UK Home Office has a large number of interesting projects in their public facing GitHub organisation.