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Funnily enough, I do sort of get that. If you're head honcho of any major organisation, having ten meetings a day, then you're not going to recall an individual minuted point from a meeting held a decade ago. What you could and should do tho is properly challenge stuff at the point at which it...

Yes, yes they do. I've worked on a couple of huge Fujitsu (formerly known as ICL) government projects and there is always a full-blown audit trail of changes. It's written directly to a table on that database. That database is backed up every night, or even sometimes in real time. The database...

That thing about inappropriate access to the database and erroneous/unauthorised changes to prior transactions? It's a smokescreen. Every single major project based on a major database I ever worked on had an unalterable audit trail of every change to the database, authorised or otherwise. The...

In the end, it'll be like the 2008 Financial Crash based on shitty worthless financial products. Everybody will disclaim any responsibility of knowing about the bigger picture, nobody responsible will go to jail 🤬

To be fair, it's pretty easy to tell when Paula Vennells is lying - her lips move

Thanks

Anyone able to deconstruct the above post into simple English?

I don't quite understand this Horizon IT Project thing. Just did a search on LinkedIn. Seems like nobody worked on it...

That number of 600 bugs is ludicrously low for a major IT project (unless there were very inadequate levels of testing done) The actual number would have run into the thousands. Many of them would have been categorised as Low Level (every bug is assigned a Level), and some of them would have...

This. And having worked in IT all my life, much of it in IT testing, the first port of call for suspicion when 'fraud levels' went through the roof should have been teething problems with a brand new IT system. A cursory glance at the IT system's database of defects (every IT project has one)...

How could this person work for the Post Office for their first five years without realising that the organisation prosecuted its own staff and in fact had a hundred-strong department tasked with doing exactly that? Anybody else smell fish? ???

Private Eye - and by extension HIGNFY - are the moral compass of the nation really. Ian Hislop must rank as one of the most deserving public figures to be awarded a title in any honours list, while at the same time being one of the least likely to be awarded one...

Investigator's getting a bit punchy now. Which seems like he's being put under unfair pressure. Until you remember he was complicit in destroying people's lives on the strength of not much more than confirmation bias. He'd already decided (or had been told) that the poor bastids were guilty and...

The interrogation of the (sample?) Post Office investigator makes for uncomfortable viewing on multiple levels ☹️

Yup, it's those who issued instructions to the help centre who need close scrutiny

I do hope they don't get away with the usual 'institutional failure' cop-out

Totally agree. That's why I said that somebody knew the big picture. And they're the ones that need holding to account

The buck does need to stop somewhere. There's an awful lot of 'I'm not technical enough'/I'm too technical'/'I was only following orders'. But somebody had the big picture

One of the aspects I find most distressing and distasteful is the Horizon Helpline. All these poor honest people innocently contacting the helpline for a bit of support and assistance re their unexplained losses and instead unwittingly flagging themselves up to an underhand form of entrapment...

I'd start with the Horizon Project Director and work down (and up)