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It'd be lovely if articles like this named the people responsible for actually building the systems. It's almost certainly never a government department. They'
by chainier 2mo ago
It'd be lovely if articles like this named the people responsible for actually building the systems. It's almost certainly never a government department.
They'll have paid one the many software/technology companies to build this thing. Who will be hiding their shoddy crap behind their client (the government department that paid for it). There are some patterns that I'm sure would start to arise from naming the consultancies that are churning out crap.
- dofm 2mo agoActually this was developed by the government, in a meaningful sense, but it seems like it's Entrust (more or less inevitably) and Accenture who are the outsourced parts. So basically both US multinationals (Accenture have a Dublin HQ as a fig leaf)
- tagyro 2mo agoAccenture …that tracks
- Steve16384 2mo agoWould it make any difference? Fujitsu wrote software so buggy that innocent people got fined and put in prison. They still get contracts even today.
- jjk166 2mo agoAll software is going to have edge cases, no matter how good the contractor is. The decision to not have contingencies to manually handle reasonable edge cases is entirely on the government.