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People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.
It won’t happen. They’ll get away with it. Same as ever.
People literally committed suicide over the hounding by the Post Office. People have gone to jail for encouraging suicide. People go to jail for false statements to the police and the court.
Executives get golden parachutes and incompetent contractors keep getting contracts.
Probably important to note that this is the UK Post Office and not, say, the United States Postal Service.
I’m sure some postmasters went postal over being convicted of no crime.
Suicidal unfortunately in many cases.
Here’s the Wikipedia article for anyone catching up like me.
The real warning here is prosecutors being able to say “the system cannot be accessed remotely”.
That assertion should not be allowed to stand without a 3rd party audit of the complete system and supporting technology.
This person should hang. Full stop.
She knowingly caused the deaths of others. That’s a capital crime in my book.
The question I’ve had, why did Fujitsu place a backdoor in the horizon system?
Probably because some n-eyes (is n still 5?) nation state “we’re the good guys, honest” protocol insisted that there be one. And if it wasn’t that it was probably some misguided attempt to permit remote maintenance.
The former hiding as the latter is not impossible either.
My guess is it’s much simpler: some genius at Fujitsu thought it would be helpful if they could remotely log in to machines for support reasons. They (unreasonably) didn’t want to send people onsite and they (reasonably) didn’t think Post Office workers would be able to resolve issues over the phone.
I’ll just bet she does. Someone or several someones deserve to be in prison for a long time.
