NHS computer systems hacked!?

smogsy said:
the future maybe gnome, but right now GNOME is horrid unreliable and bloated piece of ****. imstall a fresh install of gnome 3.0 2GB of GUI ram usage.
drivers totally agree, however the government should not be creating the drivers. for example MRI's are made by Siemens and Phillips. so they should be doing the drivers, getting to do that is another issue all together,

you don't want a third party guy creating a driver for a MRI system as an example it will be horribly unreliable and not accurate, no matter how good a programmer you are. you need inside knowledge from manufacturer to get it accurate.

you got remember some of these systems are difference between life/death

regarding Wine, stability stability stability = down the drain.

don't get me wrong it would be a good idea, but Gnome is a bad idea right now and jumping ship to fast is also a bad idea,
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Regarding the device drivers... the government could sign contracts with manufactures to develop drivers for equipment using opensource technologies and compatible with Linux.
 
Wine should never be anywhere near anything important in the NHS same with 3rd party software to interface with medical equipment, etc. - too much reverse engineered "blind" without carnal knowledge of the underlying system can result in all kinds of unforeseeable issues.
 
Funny how the most important servers (2003) and clients (XP) for C&C which are managed by Capita were very out of date with updates. :rolleyes:
 
Does wannacry encrypt external windows backups? Not sure if the permissions on the backup file would allow it to modify it?
 
PiKe said:
Does wannacry encrypt external windows backups? Not sure if the permissions on the backup file would allow it to modify it?
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Not quite sure the scenario you are talking about but I wouldn't rely on Windows permissions to stop anything - if you want backups to be secure keep an offline copy preferably on a medium that has physical write protection.
 
Rroff said:
Wine should never be anywhere near anything important in the NHS same with 3rd party software to interface with medical equipment, etc. - too much reverse engineered "blind" without carnal knowledge of the underlying system can result in all kinds of unforeseeable issues.
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Well thats what I thought but one of our devs (who is very good) said that wine isn't an emulator, he made it sound like it's closer to local libraries (DLL's)

Dunno... I've never used wine.

Of course remember were talking about wine as it stands now. If the NHS need it, they could revamp it. Or even branch it off.
 
opethdisciple said:
Well thats what I thought but one of our devs (who is very good) said that wine isn't an emulator, he made it sound like it's closer to local libraries (DLL's)

Dunno... I've never used wine.

Of course remember were talking about wine as it stands now. If the NHS need it, they could revamp it. Or even branch it off.
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It is still based on a lot of reverse engineering of the Windows runtime environment and I'm not sure how the legal side would work if the NHS was to take it up. Some aspects of it have always sat in a bit of a legal grey area.
 
Sorry, but government, in fact the public sector in general, would never entertain the giant pants down security flaws that Citrix brings to the table
 
opethdisciple said:
Regarding the device drivers... the government could sign contracts with manufactures to develop drivers for equipment using opensource technologies and compatible with Linux.
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and what if the manufacturers say "sorry not profitable for us to do that"
 
Tefal said:
and what if the manufacturers say "sorry not profitable for us to do that"
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It doesn't have to be 'free code'. Just compatible with Linux and open but not free to use by anyone else without a license.

There are different types of open source licenses out there.

I'm sure the Government can agree a fee with these companies. It is more money for them after all.

The money they save on windows and office license they could spend on agreeing contracts to develop the open source drivers for their equipment.
 
opethdisciple said:
It doesn't have to be 'free code'. Just compatible with Linux and open but not free to use by anyone else without a license.

There are different types of open source licenses out there.

I'm sure the Government can agree a fee with these companies. It is more money for them after all.

The money they save on windows and office license they could spend on agreeing contracts to develop the open source drivers for their equipment.
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im just saying they may rather have their programmers working on new products than updating a huge back catalouge of products spanning decades for one customer.
 
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