I love Bruce on everything cybersecurity but this is absolutely not true. It's like an epidemiologist telling people encryption is pointless because, well, hand-waving something something NSA supercomputers.
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I think he has a point. Unless you marry the apps with isolation of the sick and contact tracing then they are of little use and prone to false positives that may do more harm than good. Such apps can work, but only when accompanied with draconian measures the US won't do.
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"My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value" is not true, and will not stand the test of time (look at SK etc). Privacy concerns and other issues like false positives have to be addressed on their merits. "No value" is a losing argument.
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It's not a great quote for him, but the apps worked in South Korea and China when coupled with other extreme lockdown measures. The apps used without those genuinely have little value unless people are willing to do the rest.
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Those are reasonable points and it is possible his quote is cut short. I'm working on something else atm but will eventually circle back to this and will ask him. Otherwise it really is like an epidemiologist saying all encryption is pointless because of... NSA or Shor factoring.
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