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duncans ◴[] No.44532346[source]
What is amazing is the engineers the Fujitsu employed would testify in court against some of the subpostmasters saying "there were no faults" where in unearthed evidence of their support logs they could be clearly acknowledging bugs that could create false accounts, manually updating records and audit logs to balance it out (and also sometimes screwing that up).

See Nick Wallis' coverage: * https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/03/the-smoking-gun.html * https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/ecce-chambers/

> [Anne] Chambers closed the ticket with a definitive: “No fault in product”.

> The cause of the defect was assigned to “User” – that is, the Subpostmaster.

> When Beer asked why, Chambers replied: “Because I was rather frustrated by not – by feeling that I couldn’t fully get to the bottom of it. But there was no evidence for it being a system error.”

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> Chambers conceded: “something was obviously wrong, in that the branch obviously were getting these discrepancies that they weren’t expecting, but all I could see on my side was that they were apparently declaring these differing amounts, and I certainly didn’t know of any system errors that would cause that to happen, or that would take what they were declaring and not record it correctly…. so I felt, on balance, there was just no evidence of a system error.”

> No evidence. [Sir Wyn] Williams pointed out that it surely was unlikely to be a user error if both trainers and auditors had recorded the Subpostmaster as inputting information correctly. Chambers replied:

> “Well, yeah, I… yes, I don’t know why… I’m not happy with this one. But I still stand by there being no indication of a system error and the numbers that they were recording just didn’t make a lot of sense.”

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justin66 ◴[] No.44532691[source]
Pretty sure I can guess the answer, but: does the UK have professional licensure for "software engineers?"
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1. petesergeant ◴[] No.44533114[source]
Yes, software engineers can become Chartered Engineers via the BCS:

https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/get-registe...

Has anyone, ever? I've met precisely one.