NHS Data Breach Caused by Proprietary Software, as Usual, The Register MS Blames "Hackers" and "Cybercriminal Gang"
This past Friday:
4 days ago: Patients' Data Should Not be Outsourced to Any Party at All, Let's Redo the Storage Scheme
The Register MS says that a "cybercriminal gang" has taken data from the NHS. But who inside the NHS deployed Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Windows, and all sorts of systems with back doors and no warranty? Who will be held accountable?
The media fancies asking all the wrong questions as if breaches like these are inevitable and the result of dire misfortune.
Nothing will get solved unless we have a rethink and media quits using the "hacker" narrative, which shifts blame from the holes to those who merely exploit them (like stealing from a car with its doors and/or windows wide open).
Patients here in the UK already have totally legitimate, credible reasons to refuse to give personal details to the NHS. A lot of this data is intentionally leaked to companies that are speaking to actual Nazis, founded by enemies of the media (Thiel). █