Presumably then the admitted remote accesses from ICL were used to silently and secretly adjust the postmasters' (correct) totals to match the central system's (incorrect) double-counted totals. That is simple fraud. It is illegal to make accounting entries without proper authorisation.
Jesus. Still feel the main fault is in the Post Office - mistakes happen, lots of software is held together by chewing gum and sticky tape. Feedback is essential. There must have been an extraordinary level of institutional contempt regarding sub postmasters for the Post Office to ignore reality as long as it did, and assume that everything they were saying was worthless.
The Post Office despised sub postmasters, and it feels fitting that it will be destroyed by that baseless loathing.
I'm willing to run with that. I've run software projects (despite my entire and complete lack of any, at all, programming ability) and knowing the detail of what's in the code can be scary indeed. But if the Rube Goldberg machine works, OK. But as you say, if it doesn't then don't ignore it, which they did.
Presumably then the admitted remote accesses from ICL were used to silently and secretly adjust the postmasters' (correct) totals to match the central system's (incorrect) double-counted totals. That is simple fraud. It is illegal to make accounting entries without proper authorisation.
Jesus. Still feel the main fault is in the Post Office - mistakes happen, lots of software is held together by chewing gum and sticky tape. Feedback is essential. There must have been an extraordinary level of institutional contempt regarding sub postmasters for the Post Office to ignore reality as long as it did, and assume that everything they were saying was worthless.
The Post Office despised sub postmasters, and it feels fitting that it will be destroyed by that baseless loathing.
I'm willing to run with that. I've run software projects (despite my entire and complete lack of any, at all, programming ability) and knowing the detail of what's in the code can be scary indeed. But if the Rube Goldberg machine works, OK. But as you say, if it doesn't then don't ignore it, which they did.