NHS email encryption

[Adrian Midgley]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <46CEE726.5000806@defoam.net>, "Dr Adrian Midgley (In the
> office)" <amidgley2@defoam.net> writes
>> Any patient identifiable information sent from an ordinary email
>> account (eg ekcpct.nhs.uk or gp-g80000.nhs.uk) is not fully encrypted
>> and therefore open to interception and would constitute sending
>> details outside the EEA.
>
> Hold on, are they saying that the server that does nhs.uk emails is
> located outside the EEA?!?
>
> mail.nhs.uk is allegedly 212.137.44.179, which is somewhere in cw.net;
> Sheffield according to one geolocation tool, Manchester another,
> London a third (did anyone say geolocation was an inexact science?)
I think what they are demonstrating is that someone has no clue.

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