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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by eunos on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:59PM (#26228814)
I am not sure how software bug is the exclusive enabler since it is plausible as well for administration bug to occur with pen and paper along with the compliant warden.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by frompdx on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:46PM (#26229553)
It's not that software is the exclusive enabler. It is that software is the ideal enabler because of its ability to create a truly faceless entity that seems to exist outside the power of even those who administer it. Of course these issues were always possible without software. Software is just so much more efficient and useful for creating these kinds of issues because it can scale and because it can be the scapegoat.
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