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https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/27/post-office-scandal-police-to-deploy-80-detectives-for-criminal-inquiry It's going to take another 3 years, at least, but maybe, just maybe, justice will be delivered. I would love to see that lawyer in Australia who refused to...

and then she cannot recall who first mentioned those words to her(unsafe witness) so that she subsequently used them in an email. I've watched some of this on playback and it's staggering that she recalls being informed about a problem e.g. unsafe witness relating to undisclosed bugs, but did...

The Guardian wades in https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/rev-paula-vennells-innocent-subpostmasters-jail-post-office-ceo-victims

They could have stuck Sage into each post office and written batch integration to the PO central system. Job done in a few months, easy to maintain snd upgrade. Too simple for Fujitsu and nowhere near enough billable hours.

Going a bit off topic here but I worked with off-the-shelf(ish) ERP and SCM systems for over 20 years as a supplier. I just cannot understand why these projects always choose to design and build a system from scratch, reinventing the wheel numerous times, instead of procuring the best, scalable...

Well exactly. Any decent database maintains a comprehensive audit trail of every data field change. It's necessary for rollback/rollforward recovery in any case.

Jailtime.

Yes, that's what I meant by the taxpayer.

According to the Sunday Times, Fujitsu UK have got £200 million set aside for compensation payments. On the basis that at least 2,000 subpostmasters were impacted and over 700 were criminally convicted this seems low. I would have thought they would need at least twice that amount. Maybe they're...

From what I've seen so far I would say that Vennels Van de Bergh Singh Jenkins should be getting jail time but I'd risk a small wager than Jenkins will be the only one seeing a prison cell from the inside, if anyone does.

The issue is not the "backdoor" access though, as any database has data admin tools. The issue is that they 1. denied it was possible 2. denied they had a team doing it and 3. had no audit trail of what they were doing. I worked in IT for 25 years but never in a technical role, only business...

They had a secret room where people sat and changed data in the database directly without any audit trail. They denied that the room and the people existed. Jail time would be appropriate for the people in charge.

and a video camera, hopefully.

Do you mean Fujitsu? Senior Fujitsu figures have appeared at the enquiry but I'm not aware of any of them explaining who was responsible for the secret room full of people remotely accessing branch accounts to try and hide system errors.

If the TV drama was at all accurate, she was at the absolute core of the prosecutions, the lies, the obfuscation and the cover-up. Fully deserving of some time in the nick.

damn, wrong link

Deliberate sabotage and obstruction of justice? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/13/ex-post-office-boss-gave-fujitsu-bonus-contract-despite-warnings-whistleblowers-says

Mutualisation of the PO, so that it is owned by the subpostmasters, was proposed by the government in 2012. Seems like an excellent idea (but lock up Vennels and the Hitachi crooks first)...

Criminal behaviour if they are subsequently presented in court? Perverting the course of justice?

I stand by my point. Much ado about nothing and a diversion from the issue.