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Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach

• chrisjj 2y ago
  Perhaps the legal advice to PO execs facing charges is "feign incompetance" ...
  • chrisjj 2y ago
    Or no feint necessary. "Continue to do your incompetent best".
• JSDevOps 2y ago
  “I’m not technical” …
• Ylpertnodi 2y ago
  Even if fined, won't the uk taxpayers be on the hook?
  • deleted 2y ago
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  • chrisjj 2y ago
    Yes, unless there's a Czech billionaire to pick up the tab https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/29/royal-mail-owner-agrees-to-takeover-by-czech-billionaire https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/ar...
    • jayelbe 2y ago
      The Post Office is separate from Royal Mail. The two were separated when Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The Post Office is still in the public sector.
      • chrisjj 2y ago
        Understood, hence "unless".
• whycome 2y ago
  Related: "Horizon IT scandal investigator tells inquiry Post Office was ‘sabotaging our efforts’" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/18/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry-investigator-evidence https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/18/post... > He said by February 2015 he no longer believed the Post Office was taking Second Sight’s concerns about the Horizon IT system seriously. “I felt we were dealing with a cover-up by POL and possibly a criminal conspiracy,” he said.
• chrisjj 2y ago
  Now the BBC reports this was an accident, without substantiation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo
• chrisjj 2y ago
  And still despite admitting the act, the PO has made no apology apparently.