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Post Office scandal not caused by software errors


Post Office scandal not caused by software errors, says combative ...

March 2019: A High Court judge heard that the Post Office did not investigate a computer system error that could cause losses, despite being ...

Post Office minister 'horrified' at more IT faults - BBC

An accounting system used by Post Office sub-postmasters before the controversial Horizon software was introduced is likely to have also ...

Late evidence in Post Office Capture investigation could not be ...

The Post Office scandal was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they ...

Post Office scandal not caused by software errors, says combative ...

Post Office scandal not caused by software errors, says combative Fujitsu boss · Hi there and welcome to PC Help Forum (PCHF), a more effective ...

This is a real code review submitted to the public enquiry into the UK ...

This is a real code review submitted to the public enquiry into the UK Post Office scandal. This code was in production. Hundreds of people were wrongly ...

British Post Office scandal - Wikipedia

Although many subpostmasters had reported problems with the new software, and Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999, the Post ...

Post Office Horizon scandal: Why hundreds were wrongly prosecuted

Many were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software said money was missing from their Post Office branch accounts. What is the Post Office ...

Software failure: UK Post Office's Misplaced Technology Trust

Firstly, the Post Office scandal reminds us that software, despite its perceived reliability, is not infallible. The Horizon system's ...

The U.K. Post Office Scandal: Software Malpractice At Scale

The scandal is centered around a dystopian software solution that turned on its sub-postmaster users, falsely charging over 900 with theft, sending over 200 to ...

Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry ...

A Fujitsu software developer who raised the issue of bugs in the Horizon IT system said the company did not properly fix the problem because it ...

Bugs Beware: UK Post Office Scandal Demands Software ... - CEPA

The UK Post Office service contracted Japanese multinational Fujitsu to provide accounting software in 1999. Pervasive bugs produced faulty ...

Why was faulty software that caused the Post Office scandal not ...

Routine rigorous testing by both Fujitsu and the Post Office would have identified the presence of bugs in the system, but the facts are that ...

The Post Office Horizon IT scandal, part 1 – errors and accuracy

The sub-postmasters affected banded together to take a civil action against the Post Office, claiming that no frauds had taken place but that ...

How the Post Office's Horizon system failed: a technical breakdown

The system was simply not up to the tasks placed on it. The Post Office knew as much as early as 1999, when trials run in preparation for the ...

Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to ...

The BBC reported that the Post Office argued the errors couldn't have been be the fault of the computer system — despite knowing that wasn't ...

In the UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal, why were the software ...

In the UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal, why were the software errors not picked up in the bank reconciliations? If the software showed money ...

Horizon: The Human Cost of Software Failure

The scandal has highlighted the possibility that the Post Office may have neglected this crucial step. If they did not involve real-world users, ...

Developers Blamed For The Post Office Horizon Scandal? - YouTube

What was the root cause of the Post Office scandal in the UK? Are the software developers who built the Horizon IT System to blame?

Is there any actual technical report of what's wrong with the Horizon ...

It's truly a scandal that no-one in charge at the Post Office ... Post Office systems to manually 'fix' accounting errors the buggy software had ...

Post Office inquiry told that fixing bugs was too costly and time ...

A software developer at Fujitsu who raised the issue of bugs within the Horizon software ... Post Office branch would not know anything had gone wrong." According ...


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