[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Chris

I believe that’s what’s known as transference.

Seeing as you have read it but not understood it, I’ll try to be as simple as possible.

The researchers use jail broken phones so they can verify that the app is working as claimed.

Jail broken phones allow unauthorised apps to be run, that reveal things normally hidden to users.

The jail broken state of the phone is of no relevance beyond providing evidence that the tracing app seems to work as intended.



And it seems you’re more interested in maintaining your belief that the app won’t work, in the face of hard evidence to the contrary.

Go figure.

Oh dear (again). I am surprised at your level of condescension. I was asking civil questions so maybe you just have a problem with being questioned?

Thanks for being simple BTW. The scientific test is not the behaviour of the atypical device. Rather it is the behaviour of the App running on the various retail builds of iOS that is the deciding factor, something you fail to grasp.

As to the hard evidence, there seem to be some issues:

Isle of Wight contact tracing app 'fails to work on four-year-old phones', residents say

The NHS contact-tracing app has been hit by a series of glitches on the first day of its roll-out on the Isle of Wight, which saw residents saying it did not work on phones that are only four years old.

Islanders used social media to vent frustrations over the app with others complaining it drained their phone battery or was bombarding them with multiple notifications.

However, the island’s MP Bob Seely said the trial of the app had gotten off to a “strong start” with over 30,000 people downloading it.

The bugs come as the NHS is considering ditching its own model of the app and switching over to the system preferred by Apple and Google.

On Thursday, Columbia became the latest country to mothball its efforts to build a contact-tracing app, after it was beset by technical problems, and is now moving over the tech giants’ model....

Exclusive: ‘Wobbly’ tracing app ‘failed’ clinical safety and cyber security tests

Contact tracing app ‘fails’ NHS and cyber security tests

NHS Covid contact-tracing app could be ILLEGAL and will cause chaos for Brits' foreign travel because it's incompatible with Apple-Google system, warn critics as it goes live on the Isle of Wight

Interestingly:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/uk...racing-report/

In related news today, Reuters reports that Colombia has pulled its own coronavirus contacts tracing app after experiencing glitches and inaccuracies. The app had used alternative technology to power contacts logging via Bluetooth and wi-fi. A government official told the news agency it aims to rebuild the system and may now use the Apple-Google API.

Australia has also reported Bluetooth related problems with its national coronavirus app. And has also been reported to be moving towards adopting the Apple-Google API.

While, Singapore, the first country to launch a Bluetooth app for coronavirus contacts tracing, was also the first to run into technical hitches related to platform limits on background access — likely contributing to low download rates for the app (reportedly below 20%).