UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’

Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by WarOnPrivacy on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:38AM (#26914631)

The crappy state of rural UK broadband (circa 2010) is proudly on display here.

ref: https://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/c05470e5-337f-4b...

Maybe the FCC went all NYPD-World-Police on the UK - popped over there to run things for a while.

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by gm3dmo on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:13AM (#26914970)

I don't think the state of broadband can be the cause here. Banks, supermarkets and even GP surgeries were able to support complex accounting systems or patient records for decades.

Seems like the Futisu team running Horizon decided to reinvent everything badly.

Much of government IT was being given to consultancies like Fujitsu/EDS in the 15 years since 1994. These contracts ended badly: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280096810/Why-did-EDS-c... especially for the public paying the bills.

Martha Lane Fox and the GDS pointed out the folly of this approach in 2010 https://gds.blog.gov.uk/story-2010/

They've done an amazing job overall, but hubris overcame them with things like Verify https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerweekly.com/news/252...

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by Mauricebranagh on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:53AM (#26914772)

Didn't have BB back then - this is the sort of application D Chanel was designed for.

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