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Cyber attack at NHS London hospitals in critical incident, operations cancelled

3 pointsby cal85about 1 year ago

2 comments

gravescaleabout 1 year ago
If there was any actual willingness to do any kind of governance what you can do here is actually investigate what happened, don&#x27;t take the &quot;service providers&quot; at their word and then, if they&#x27;re not doing their jobs, throw the book at them.<p>It won&#x27;t happen, partly because that&#x27;s effort and would need some amount of being bothered and also UK is just a messy heap of middlemen all providing the minimum service (and usually less) at maximum margins while disclaiming accountability, and it&#x27;s not only not seen as a problem, but actively desirable.<p>Everything from fixing potholes, x-raying patients to recruiting for the army is outsourced and re-outsourced and no one ever seems to think that the outcomes may occasionally need to be looked at.
chrisjjabout 1 year ago
The articles says the the attack was at a services provider, not the NHS hospitals.<p>Though it could have been, thinks said provider: &quot;this sort of attack can happen to anyone at any time&quot;.<p>Er...