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This seems more an issue of bureaucratic incentives than software. Fujitsu wanted to hide bugs to look better for future contracts. The Post Office wanted to hi

This seems more an issue of bureaucratic incentives than software. Fujitsu wanted to hide bugs to look better for future contracts. The Post Office wanted to hide bugs to deflect blame from central leadership and be able to scapegoat people at will. The judicial systems seems to have either not cared or had incentives for some quick prosecutions. Software doesn't exist in a vacuum and software will never be perfect. Trying to solve systematic problems by holding one part to impossible standards will just make things worse rather than better.

neolefty 6y ago
Yes, it seems clear that people knew about these problems — they were obvious at one level of management — and they worked together to cover them up.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago
  Heads have to start rolling for this, or we will end up in a dystopian nightmare where any corporate organisation can ruin your life for no reason. It will be like USSR except more unpredictable because it can come from any direction
  - zentiggr 6y ago
    I think we're already over the edge of that, it's more urgent than you think. A couple of insensitive Facebook posts gets you dropped from consideration for a job... no matter how long ago and how much you may have matured in the meantime. Google implements FLoC and cohorts start identifying political leanings, medical conditions, mental health issues, anything that's legally potentially discrimination territory... how do you know that someone deduced a cohort topic and denied you <something> based on that... Tip of the iceberg. Data aggregators already have opaque records on probably everybody alive, just find the one with data about your person of interest. This needs to be a complete change of awareness and ethics and global law... otherwise we're going to have the movie "The Circle" come completely true as opposed to being just around the corner.

neolefty 6y ago

Yes, it seems clear that people knew about these problems — they were obvious at one level of management — and they worked together to cover them up.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
Heads have to start rolling for this, or we will end up in a dystopian nightmare where any corporate organisation can ruin your life for no reason. It will be like USSR except more unpredictable because it can come from any direction
- zentiggr 6y ago
  I think we're already over the edge of that, it's more urgent than you think. A couple of insensitive Facebook posts gets you dropped from consideration for a job... no matter how long ago and how much you may have matured in the meantime. Google implements FLoC and cohorts start identifying political leanings, medical conditions, mental health issues, anything that's legally potentially discrimination territory... how do you know that someone deduced a cohort topic and denied you <something> based on that... Tip of the iceberg. Data aggregators already have opaque records on probably everybody alive, just find the one with data about your person of interest. This needs to be a complete change of awareness and ethics and global law... otherwise we're going to have the movie "The Circle" come completely true as opposed to being just around the corner.