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It was not a software glitch! Such thing would get normally discovered and fixed in a few months It was corrupt managers, police and goverment! Literal conspi

by Gee8r9 3y ago

It was not a software glitch! Such thing would get normally discovered and fixed in a few months It was corrupt managers, police and goverment! Literal conspiracy to destroy lives of innocent people!

iforgotpassword 3y ago
So the corruption made it that somehow that bug-free software produced inconsistencies in accounting? Interesting.
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- vidarh 3y ago
  The point is that the bugs on their own would have been merely a nuisance leading to unnecessary audits if not for the severe mismanagement around them.
- mathieuh 3y ago
  There were hundreds of these cases, and the affect post-masters were calling the IT helpline repeatedly saying sums of money were going missing. Personally I think that if you have hundreds of people of good reputation and standing swearing up and down that they didn't steal money, and there's a record of their having called repeatedly to report erroneous data in the software, then there should be some sort of investigation to figure out what was going on. Instead they were shouted down and threatened.
  - guappa 3y ago
    There was a case where after a call to the IT helpline the "missing" money just doubled, and the helpline just said "well pay the new amount or go to jail"
- imtringued 3y ago
  Nobody said the software is bug free. That is your interpretation. The corruption lies in the fact that the bug wasn't fixed.
  - iforgotpassword 3y ago
    > Nobody said the software is bug free. The comment I replied to literally said exactly that.
    - Gee8r9 3y ago
      Who prevented the bug from being fixed?
    - mkl 3y ago
      No it didn't. It correctly says that the glitch itself didn't ruin lives, and that the officials' response to the glitch did ruin lives.
    - owisd 3y ago
      Seems like an uncharitable interpretation. Reads more like they were replying to the headline by saying management sent people to prison, not the glitch.

by Gee8r9 3y ago

It was not a software glitch! Such thing would get normally discovered and fixed in a few months It was corrupt managers, police and goverment! Literal conspiracy to destroy lives of innocent people!

iforgotpassword 3y ago

So the corruption made it that somehow that bug-free software produced inconsistencies in accounting? Interesting.

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vidarh 3y ago
The point is that the bugs on their own would have been merely a nuisance leading to unnecessary audits if not for the severe mismanagement around them.
mathieuh 3y ago
There were hundreds of these cases, and the affect post-masters were calling the IT helpline repeatedly saying sums of money were going missing. Personally I think that if you have hundreds of people of good reputation and standing swearing up and down that they didn't steal money, and there's a record of their having called repeatedly to report erroneous data in the software, then there should be some sort of investigation to figure out what was going on. Instead they were shouted down and threatened.
- guappa 3y ago
  There was a case where after a call to the IT helpline the "missing" money just doubled, and the helpline just said "well pay the new amount or go to jail"
imtringued 3y ago
Nobody said the software is bug free. That is your interpretation. The corruption lies in the fact that the bug wasn't fixed.
- iforgotpassword 3y ago
  > Nobody said the software is bug free. The comment I replied to literally said exactly that.
  - Gee8r9 3y ago
    Who prevented the bug from being fixed?
  - mkl 3y ago
    No it didn't. It correctly says that the glitch itself didn't ruin lives, and that the officials' response to the glitch did ruin lives.
  - owisd 3y ago
    Seems like an uncharitable interpretation. Reads more like they were replying to the headline by saying management sent people to prison, not the glitch.