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I was curious for the same, and ended up reading this - https://em360tech.com/tech-article/post-office-scandal https://em360tech.com/tech-article/post-office-sc
by hashtag-til 3y ago
I was curious for the same, and ended up reading this - https://em360tech.com/tech-article/post-office-scandal https://em360tech.com/tech-article/post-office-scandal
It seems like the classical mega-corp system issues:
"These flaws included rounding errors, data corruption, and issues with synchronization between local and central databases."
- anentropic 3y agoI was listening to a programme about this on Radio 4 last night it seems like, on top of the buggy software, Fujitsu had contractors logging in to Post Office systems to manually 'fix' accounting errors the buggy software had produced one of them described how while they were logged in to the POS system it would appear to be working to the real user but would actually be doing nothing because it was in some kind of remote admin mode, seems like the sort of remediation that's likely to make things worse sounded like a total shit show
- hermitcrab 3y agoApparently Fujitsu could log in and change the live data on a subpostmaster's system remotely and they frequently did this to make corrections. However it looked as if the subpostmaster had made the change. There was no proper audit log. However the subpostmasters were told remote access was impossible and any errors were 100% their fault. The wrong people went to prison. All the existing convictions must be considered unsafe.