TIL Buggy computer software in the UK resulted in 230 post office workers being imprisoned for fraud between 1999 and 2015. Details are just coming to light.
"Faulty computer software resulted in some 230 post office workers being imprisoned on false charges of theft and fraud. Thousands of others were accused of similar misdeeds." #software#buggy
@ai6yr Horizon. And the jackasses in charge got hundreds of complaints about the shitty code. The narrow-minded see villains where there are none without any help from software.
@ai6yr@epixoip I mean… faulty computer software was the start. But then the people involved were relentlessly pursued for recompense. They were blamed instead of the software. They were lied to. And the whole thing was covered up.
So the faulty software was only a tiny bit responsible.
This should begin: “Horrible selfish corporate managers resulted in…”
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