Britain's nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers

It’s not the submarine software, but the manufacturer’s intranet. Likely based on Sharepoint: https://www.reply.com/wm-reply/en/

> WM Reply are … specialising in Microsoft 365

And it’s a £500k contract, which doesn’t get you very far in corporate intranet land.

But of course it presents a security risk, since the intranet usually is the gateway to people or project information.

And I am truly puzzled by how they knew it wasn’t appropriate to hire subcontractors in Belarus and Russia, but talked themselves into making it ok. Even suggesting to put names of dead people in the reports.

The Telegraph’s report seems to say that the Belarusians/Russians were working on an intranet used by the people writing the nuclear submarine software, not that they were working on the software themselves. Does undermine their own headline.

Doesn’t undermine all the security concerns though.

Can I get a second opinion on this, please?