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Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” and hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers (arstechnica.com)

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Au service du capital la tech, ofc.
Le libre, cest politique avant tout.

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/11177244

"All the bugs and errors have been known at one level or not, for many, many years. Right from the very start of deployment of the system, there were bugs and errors and defects, which were well-known to all parties," said Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division. Ars Trending Video

That goes back to 1999, when the Horizon software system was installed in post offices by Fujitsu subsidiary International Computers Limited. From 1999 to 2015, Fujitsu's faulty accounting software aided in the prosecution and conviction of more than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were accused of theft or fraud when the software wrongly made it appear that money was missing from their branches.

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