I suspect Zoom just happens to be the choice this particular group has settled on. While across government people have been scrabbling to just make something work now that security's previous modus operandi is being trumped by the need to let people work from home.
Government even more than the private sector have been slow to allow for home working. I'm hopeful this will change that.
Not nearly hard enough. Not even close to hard enough. They need help with that, possibly with heavy machinery.
Core parts of GCHQ might love the potential honey pot. But their offshoot NCSC [1] will be table-flipping big time.
* [1] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
Not smacking their heads into the table nearly hard enough. Not even close.
Literally copying the literal Stasi approach to spying (not the rest, just spying) would simultaneously improve the quality of the data and reduce the negative side effects relative to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
The macho pose that comes out everytime someone suggests they should be subject to, you know, the law and behave better than Stalin's henchmen is very worrying.
So who is the politician who will is effective enough to provide true oversight and rein them in when required.
Name that politician. Any party.
Do you see the problem now?
Yes see, this is why almost nobody in the general population takes opinions like yours at all seriously.
That without a doubt all changed many times and somewhat supprised they are using Zoom, and would of thought at least would of contracted to run their own private server connected via VPN. Very supprised and when American politicians all loved their blackberry's, they had their own dedicated servers they controlled access to, supplied by RIM.
But the DOH and all the other government departments are entities unto themselves, and I'm not that up on anything the last couple of decades, but suspect that there isn't any common solution to enable what they need to do for remote working in isolation. I'm sure much will change after this. Also fairly sure GCHQ probably bashing their heads on the table.
But I can see how they got to where they are, knowing aspects of government workings and departmental fencing, still - does kinda make you go WTF still.