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It’s another example of the British establishment and media blaming “computer glitches” and “the system”. A buggy accounting system on its own cannot cause such a disaster, unlike a buggy avionics system or a Therac-25.

This scandal would not have happened if the people in power had rightly been skeptical of the output of an accounting system that had been called into disrepute by several employees.

People did this. People chose to prosecute. People lied. The courts accepted dodgy evidence. The scandal is the post office employees, the solicitors, the courts, and the Fujitsu employees, not the buggy accounting system. People took the output of an accounting system as though it had come down from a mountain on a stone tablet.

[gumballindie]

It’s the same logic people use for claiming ai “will destroy us”. They deflect responsibility for making crapware. Having said that, there is not a single software company I worked at in the UK that has not suffered from serious glitches that no one wanted to fix. One I heard of and it may have been reported in the media was a prison software that let people go either sooner or later than they should have - never on time. Engineering is a joke in the UK because good engineers are considered “obsessed” while talkers are pushed in front. All due to the same mediocre leadership that blames the very same software they dont allocate proper engineering time to fix.