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I imagine big tech companies and startups in the UK pay better salaries, and are better at evaluating talent. That creates adverse selection in the remaining employee pool, which the public sector is fishing in. Same as in the US.

What puzzles me is how Estonia managed to avoid this problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5krZBe0Dck

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The theory is right but in practice none of this is really run by the public sector anything remotely difficult is just contracted out to the private sector and they go with basically the cheapest bid from a "big" company. In this case it's telent and they probably just brought a captive portal product (the cheapest, of course ;)) and it got hacked.

I'm just thinking about this. If they were to give it to a "public sector" style org who would it be?

It would be interesting just to give the job to Jisc actually, eduroam at all mainline stations and for normal users a captive portal w/wpa3 for fist time registration/use then option of kicking you to 802.11x would be a fine solution and one they're enormously experienced at.

Another option is giving it to TFL to run or some kind of joint procurement with them as TFL for whatever reason are vastly more agile and competent then national rail.

Final option GDS get involved and come up with a standard solution, open source of course and managed in house.

I'd agree with this. At some point in the past, a final-salary defined benefit pension and the job security may have gone some way to levelling the playing field a bit.

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