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The craziest thing to me here is that they never actually found any of the accused to be in possession of the funds they had supposedly embezzled. I wonder if

• dv_dt 6y ago
  If one were writing a novel, the thief would be hiding their tracks by being in a key place feeding the prosecution. But really there is a track record of court systems latching onto criminal prosecutions via questionable technologies from handwriting analysis to lie detectors et al.
  • agilob 6y ago
    There was a TV series about it.
• agilob 6y ago
  Yes, someone from Fujitsu who didn't deliver quality software, refused to accept it _might_ be buggy. >In the same speech, he said that the Post Office would work with the government to compensate the employees who were affected by Horizon’s inaccuracies. Fujitsu won't even be held financially accountable for the suicide, but tax payers will. To me, it sounds like a great deal, delivery shitty software, bounce back any questions about quality, bugs, refuse to re-test software for given scenarios for years, but still get paid.
  • philjohn 6y ago
    It's just another example of "socialise the losses". IF people at Fujitsu knew that there were problems with the system and IF they still presented evidence that it was infallible, then people need to be going to prison.
    • agilob 6y ago
      People at RM knew about it. They were covering up the operation and protecting the system, which already cost tax payers 100M.