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Given the Post Office / Horizon scandal, I'd actually be reassured the default assumption was the software was wrong. Further reading at https://en.wikipedia.o
by xnorswap 3y ago
Given the Post Office / Horizon scandal, I'd actually be reassured the default assumption was the software was wrong.
Further reading at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal , the TLDR is the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history because people insisted the software was right.
- jaggs 3y agoAbout to be the subject of a UK TV series this month.
- whycome 3y agoWell that has the potential to be incredibly depressing. It will be super interesting to see how they portray the developers and if they call out fujitsu
- jaggs 3y agoI really hope so. The authorities haven't even compensated most of the victims yet, still stalling. Hopefully the series will shame them into doing the right thing. It was disgusting what they did to these poor people, mostly just small mom and pop businesses who couldn't fight back.