Beer KC in his closing statement to the #PostOfficeInquiry
"It is not a technical investigation into the failure of computer systems but an investigation into the harm done by people to other people"
"How wonderful to be as incurious as Ed. Not to think – even for a nano-second – that there might be something wrong going on. That not every post office operator who was complaining of an injustice might be making it up. But not Brain-Dead Ed. He had his officials to tell him everything was tickety boo."
The Post Office Inquiry is now out of its depth in reconciling questions made to technical architects and the context implied in the answers.
Asked about known problems in Horizon it's quite reasonable to think that that refers to outstanding problems, or problems at a specific time or period.
The specific time or period was not part of the question.
The understanding of scale and the kind of failures that arise seems very odd to me. There are different pressures but they cause similar performance problems.
If timeouts on a client are too severe then fixing a configuration will hide the problem but increasing the volume of data may well expose it again.
Post Office expert IT witness Gareth Jenkins resigns BCS membership
The former Fujitsu chief architect for Horizon has resigned as a member of the BCS after he was told he could be investigated
George Thomson is so deep in the mind set that he has no opinion which could be considered sane.
He was bought and paid for by the Post Office and his thinking is much like a Stalinist stranded in the late 50's everything was good it was the fault of the wreckers.
Another case of not understanding the term systemic. Systemic does not mean on every case or in every context. In specific contexts, particular types of transactions in the same stream would always cause issues. That is a systemic fault.
Horizon wasn't and isn't fit for purpose not just because of the quality of the code or its architecture but how it was operated both by the Post Office and Fujitsu/ICL.
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