[SystemSafety] Post Office Horizon System

[Steve Tockey]

I’m wondering why nobody seems to be considering holding the programmers who wrote that code accountable. Why aren’t those programmers sent to jail for equal time they caused the falsely accused? Why don’t those programmers have to pay the reimbursements?

As long as programmers who write crap code like that are not held accountable for their obvious failures, why would anybody even hope for anything to change in how software is developed?

Leave the taxpayers out of it. They (we) are completely innocent. Hang those programmers—and their employer—out to dry. That will teach them. For once.



> On Apr 23, 2021, at 8:52 AM, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at causalis.com> wrote:
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>> On 2021-04-23 17:15 , Derek M Jones wrote:
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>> 39 Post Office convictions quashed
>> https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/23/post_office_scandal_fujitsu_convictions_quashed/
> Not just. Category 2 abuse of process was determined in all those 39 cases. That is when the justice system itself has been abused. I am told by a barrister involved that it opens the Post Office to claims for malicious prosecution.
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> The Post Office has already said it cannot afford its compensation scheme (some £57+m was agreed out of court before Fraser J's 2019 judgement) so the taxpayer will foot some of it.
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