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Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago

Fujitsu aren't blameless, not at all. They were going into user's accounts and fiddling figures, correcting the errors the software made.

Then when a sub-postmaster went to their office and saw this, they retaliated by setting his account to debit and erased records of him being there. It may well be that many of the victims were targeted for complaining that the system was flawed.