In this newsletter:

 - Apple still battling with the UK to sustain its encryption
 - Thousands of WordPress websites infected with malware
 - DeepSeek - How can OpenAI compete, I know....
 - Two billion pound for a finance system, it has to be the NHS

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Apple still battling with the UK to sustain its encryption
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The UK still seems to be battling to gain access to data on Apple devices.  While this maybe something Governments all over the world would like, such a move would leave all that data at risk.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/

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Thousands of WordPress websites infected with malware
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Ensure you update your WordPress website ASAP, or you could be spreading malware. 

https://schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/thousands-of-wordpress-websites-infected-with-malware.html


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DeepSeek - How can OpenAI compete, I know....
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Let is rip on all data, commercial, private and government data.  No they would not allow that, there must be laws to surely stop that?!

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/


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Two billion pound for a finance system, it has to be the NHS
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2 billion, that is 2 thousand times a million (2000,000,000).  A very high price to pay for a HR/finance package.

Worth every penny?  If it delivered a working system without issues maybe, but that would be asking tooooooooo much.
Read more:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/nhs_finance_system_delayed/

This does bring in the question of just how much as the NHS wasted during the last 20yrs on IT projects which have consistently failed to deliver?

Also, this month saw Birmingham City Council inquiry into their botched install of an Oracle system originally priced at 20 million pound, now projected to cost 130 million to apply remedy work:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/birmingham_oracle_inquiry/

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