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#2796562 17-Oct-2021 09:57

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Broken in Firefox for me as well. No obvious errors in the console, either. Hmm.

Must be something your end. Have just signed into it again on Firefox and it works 100%. This is the third occasion I've tried and it's worked perfectly every time.

Maybe some extension that's incorrectly blocking it? Try disabling your extensions and see which one is the culprit.

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#2796564 17-Oct-2021 10:03

KiwiSurfer:

X-Spam-known-sender: no

X-Spam-sender-reputation: 500 (none)

X-Spam-score: 1.8

X-Spam-hits: BAYES_00 -1.9, DCC_CHECK 1.1, FSL_BULK_SIG 2.497, HTML_MESSAGE 0.001, ME_SENDERREP_NEUTRAL 0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001, SPF_PASS -0.001, TVD_PH_BODY_ACCOUNTS_PRE 0.001, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.001, LANGUAGES en, BAYES_USED user, SA_VERSION 3.4.2

X-Spam-source: IP='149.72.121.238', Host='wrqvtwzz.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net', Country='US', FromHeader='nz', MailFrom='nz'

Looks like they're using Mailgrid who are a professional outfit who handles mass emails so they are following best practice as much as they can.

Not much the MOH can do other than wait for their reputation to improve which will take some time.

No DMARC record for "identity.health.nz", new domain. Also x-Spam-score 1.8 is not high but trips some wires.

I would say adding DKIM and DMARC would go a long way to fix this.

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#2796751 17-Oct-2021 15:30

KiwiSurfer:

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X-Spam-source: IP='149.72.121.238', Host='wrqvtwzz.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net', Country='US', FromHeader='nz', MailFrom='nz'

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Not much the MOH can do other than wait for their reputation to improve which will take some time.

It might not impact their SPAM score, but it impacts my sensibilities: Why have Country=US when we are in NZ. 🤮

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#2796815 17-Oct-2021 18:38

ANglEAUT:

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X-Spam-source: IP='149.72.121.238', Host='wrqvtwzz.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net', Country='US', FromHeader='nz', MailFrom='nz'

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It might not impact their SPAM score, but it impacts my sensibilities: Why have Country=US when we are in NZ. 🤮

That's most likely country of the source IP, not where the sender claims to be located.

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#2796816 17-Oct-2021 18:53

ripdog:
Broken in Firefox for me as well. No obvious errors in the console, either. Hmm.

Tried again today, straight in with firefox, logging in via Real Me as before.

KiwiSurfer:
Maybe some extension that's incorrectly blocking it? Try disabling your extensions and see which one is the culprit.

I tried a lot of that stuff. Nothing disabled today.

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#2797361 18-Oct-2021 21:04

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No DMARC record for "identity.health.nz", new domain. Also x-Spam-score 1.8 is not high but trips some wires.

I would say adding DKIM and DMARC would go a long way to fix this.

They already use DKIM -- the headers for those were further down the email source. DMARC would be useful yes, hopefully they can add this.

1.8 is quite good. Fastmail default settings has anything over 5.0 going into the Spam folder. Their 'Aggressive' setting reduces that to 4.0. To give some context over how to interpret SpamAssassin scores.

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#2797363 18-Oct-2021 21:09

ANglEAUT:

It might not impact their SPAM score, but it impacts my sensibilities: Why have Country=US when we are in NZ. 🤮

Unless an organisation actually runs their own own email servers (which is becoming very rare nowdays) it's quite common to outsource it to a company that specialises in email. These email companies will usually be based overseas. The emails i get from Geekzone notifying me of replies to this thread has Country=AU. Looking at email sources of various NZ companies Country=AU and Country=US is quite common. No sign of any Country=NZ!

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#2797385 18-Oct-2021 21:49

I hope there is a lot more to come from this web app which cost tax payers 9 million.

https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/688383/ministry-health-breaks-down-costs-controversial-immunisation-register/

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#2801441 26-Oct-2021 16:25

iOS 15.1 came out today and one of the new features noted is the Wallet App showing Vaccine Cards.

With the new Ministry of Health site will that likely have an app created for it and feed this new iOS feature, or could the Covid Tracer app be updated to both Vaccine Certificate as location recording?

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#2801446 26-Oct-2021 16:37

DjShadow:

iOS 15.1 came out today and one of the new features noted is the Wallet App showing Vaccine Cards.

With the new Ministry of Health site will that likely have an app created for it and feed this new iOS feature, or could the Covid Tracer app be updated to both Vaccine Certificate as location recording?

Doesn't appear so. It's been made fairly clear they will be kept separate. I imagine there is less control/privacy coveage in the wallets and working with the framework thats been in the works for a while

Suspect the way they are talking it will possibly use the site data to send a digital cert out to the details people update with. So pay to sign up all your relations/help them along etc before it gets busy.

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#2807906 5-Nov-2021 09:40

I just started a new thread with what in my view are the steps required to login to My Covid Record... Hopefully with all the useful information in the first post as I plan to update it.

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=161&topicid=290350

If anyone has been through the direct to MoH process using your drivers license and any gotchas feel free to post, or DM me or tag me somehow and I can update the first post as needed.

Feel free to slap me down @freitasm if you want it as a blog post or not needed to create confusion.

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#2808166 5-Nov-2021 17:27

Press release:

The Ministry of Health has today published the specification for the COVID-19 domestic vaccine pass and the verifier specification to the Ministry of Health’s Github account.

My Vaccine Pass, which is an official record of a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status, will help people access places within New Zealand that require proof of vaccination under the new COVID-19 Protection Framework.

A separate pass for use when travelling internationally will also be available shortly. Both passes will be stored in a QR code that can be downloaded to your personal phone or may be printed out. They will be available later this month.

The specifications that are being released describe the data in the QR code, the technology that is used to encode it, and how the QR code is expected to be interpreted and processed.

The Ministry of Health is also building a free Verifier App to be made available on the App Store and Google Play, for anyone to use to scan and verify a My Vaccine Pass.

“The release of the specifications today, ahead of vaccination passes being required or available, means business and the public can understand how this technology is going to work. It is important for businesses to check out the approach being taken and start considering how best to make this a part of how they operate,” said Michael Dreyer, Group Manager National Digital Services.

The Ministry of Health has appointed tech company MATTR to construct vaccination passes for use domestically and internationally. MATTR will be the main provider of the technology that underpins the Ministry’s My Vaccine Pass and will develop and support the Ministry’s Verifier App for businesses to confirm a person’s vaccine status.

Vaccination certificates can be claimed through the MyCovidRecord platform, which is operated by the Ministry.

“We have been talking to events companies, tourism operators, and other businesses to understand their requirements for verification. The Ministry’s Verifier App can be used for in-person verification, however if companies would like to introduce more sophisticated capabilities, such as integration into existing digital journeys or pre-verification processes, then the technical specification provides enough details for them to do so.”

MATTR is a New Zealand company that has been contracted by the Ministry to construct the vaccination certificates for international and domestic use and has existing technology platforms designed for this and similar use cases.

“It was important for the Ministry to work with a New Zealand tech company that understood the need for the public to have a secure digital record of their vaccine status,” said Michael Dreyer.

A closed competitive tender process by the Ministry of Health called for a collaborative proposal by tech companies who had the credibility and capability to provide certificate generation capabilities for these purposes.

Businesses may want to incorporate the verifier process into their existing software or may have an interest in how to offer this service. The specification and other documentation will be available from the Ministry of Health’s Github account and MATTR and other tech companies can be engaged separately to provide additional verification tools and capabilities.

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#2808168 5-Nov-2021 17:29

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#2809203 8-Nov-2021 10:10

Just out of interest Mauricio, when did you receive the latest press release? By your time stamp was it some time between 5 and 5.30 on a Friday afternoon? Sometimes known as the “Flush Zone” where the bureaucrat hits the “send” button and then goes home for the weekend. Too late for the six o’clock news and no one can be contacted anyway. By Monday things have moved on.

I’d like to know why this wasn’t actioned weeks, if not months ago? And certainly be to the ‘Release Candidate’ stage by now.

So, in operation by end of November will mean:

Announced 29 Nov to go live on 31 Nov,

On going live, servers crash due to ‘unexpected demand’,

Authorities apologise and “ask people to be patient”,

Sign on bugs mean people are unable to get their pass, in either printed or digital form.

And that is before you even try to actually use the pass under the traffic light system (prior to Christmas in Auckland and goodness knows when for the rest of Aotearoa).

I reckon we may have it operating smoothly in time for the Six60 concerts in April.

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#2809204 8-Nov-2021 10:23

I expect you are basing the announcement of engagement as the contract engagement start. Going by the fact the technical data is already available on the github, I suspect it's been developed at least for a little while already just under NDA of some form.

It would have gone out about the same time they put it on their own page

https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/technical-information-published-support-covid-19-vaccine-pass-and-verifiers

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