Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Post office and Mark Davies- the chasm between what was Known and what was accepted" video.

  1. Did you know that the poorly coded POS database system that had proved to be unreliable to the extent that the DWP rejected it for computerising social security benefit psyments, was recycled for the Post Office Horizon system...? It seems that software companies are not immune to polishing poop, especially when their customer isn't the sharpest pencil in the box. Not so with banking computer systems, because the banks will hire the best independent data security teams to stress test their systems, so software companies don't pull the wool over banks, but government, especially when you've donated to party funds is a slam dunk it seems. Data integrity assurance is par for the course for POS systems for everyone else except the public sector. That's not to say things don't go wrong. They do, but it seems go happen much, much more in government. Millions of taxpayers money has been wasted or misused in paying for shoddy or unsuitable software. Perhaps all that proves is that the UK isn't immune from corruption and cronyism as we imagine.
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