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pipesyesterday at 2:13 PM4 repliesview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

Their software is so poor that it caused probably the biggest miscarriage of justice in history. Well that and Fujitsu staff colluding with post office executives to put innocent people in prison rather than admit there was a problem


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Makenyesterday at 2:23 PM

The 'Fujitsu' that made the shitty software was a British consulting company that was acquired by Fujitsu [1] to farm public contracts. This is made by the Japanese parent company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limite...

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pipesyesterday at 6:16 PM

I'm surprised at the downvotes for this, does anyone think I'm misrepresenting the facts? I genuinely don't think I am.

varispeedyesterday at 2:18 PM

I wouldn't trust that this CPU can do maths properly.