This is getting ridiculous. Peter Coates of @AppertaUK is using Apperta CIC funds to pursue a vendetta against a researcher who found and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in their security.

Apperta's funding is largely from the taxpayer via @NHSDigital and @innovateuk https://twitter.com/robdykedotcom/status/1386297073411100674

Nobody with any clue in the UK NHS open source health tech world will ever be working with @AppertaUK.

So Apperta may yet achieve the ultimate Pyrrhic victory: save the 'reputation' of an organisation, and sign its death warrant in the same action.

Apperta: STOP

@openuk_uk @openDemocracy @NHSCCIO @CompareSoftware @bengoldacre @Foxglovelegal @fsfe @OpenSourceOrg @TheRegister @CyberSolicitor @healthyopinion

The governance of @AppertaUK itself is interesting.

Until all this stuff blew up, they were still using the images and names of a number of their EX-directors on their 'About' page, to lend a little more gravitas.

Those directors have requested their removal from Apperta's site

@AppertaUK is currently a fiefdom of Peter Coates, its Managing Director.

Despite being 'open', there is relatively little transparency around their finances.

When I did some work for them several years ago, I was unable to understand why my contract was with @AppertaUK ....

... but the funds came directly from @NHSDigital via NHS SBS. Weird, huh?

This was never satisfactorily explained to me.

Contracted by @AppertaUK , invoices go to @NHSDigital , paid by @NHSDigital

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