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Stallman Was Right

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For the past 20 years UK Post Office employees have been dealing with a piece of software called Horizon, which had a fatal flaw: bugs that made it look like employees stole tens of thousands of British pounds. This led to some local postmasters being convicted of crimes, even being sent to prison, because the Post Office doggedly insisted the software could be trusted. After fighting for decades, 39 people are finally having their convictions overturned, after what is reportedly the largest miscarriage of justice that the UK has ever seen.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Earlier this month the chief executive of the Post Office said that Horizon would be replaced with a new, cloud-based solution.

hey, I have an idea... Lets make this problem even more opaque!