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The root cause of this and many problems is people not auditing computers by hand. How many Fortune 100 companies do absurdly stupid things because nobody audi
by RecycledEle 3y ago
The root cause of this and many problems is people not auditing computers by hand.
How many Fortune 100 companies do absurdly stupid things because nobody audited a spreadsheet that had errors in it?
You can use computers for day-to-day operations, but you must periodically audit every thing they do (for one day, for example) by hand.
As a teacher I double-check Canvas' grade book in Excel.
Not auditing computers eventually leads to disaster.
- k1t 3y agoThe Horizon system was well known to be extremely buggy though. The developer, who has not previously talked publicly about his experiences on the project, told Computer Weekly that in the months leading up to its launch, Horizon’s problems were well known inside Fujitsu. “Everybody in the building by the time I got there knew it was a bag of s*t”, he said. “It had gone through the test labs God knows how many times, and the testers were raising bugs by the thousand.” https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252496560/Fujitsu-bosses-knew-about-Post-Office-Horizon-IT-flaws-says-insider https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252496560/Fujitsu-bosses... ...the High Court judge said he would refer Fujitsu to the Director of Public Prosecutions for possible further action because he had "grave concerns" about the evidence of the company's employees. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036