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Every system for every large corporate I've been involved in had "back door" data update access and tools for support staff. As you say - this is completely normal. If these access methods didn't exist then when errors occur - and all systems contain errors - then there would be no way to...

Nothing at all that I'm aware of. Is it possible that individual hands-on investigators did not know the extent of the Horizon issues, as they were handed case after case to investigate? Maybe, maybe not - simply none of us know. It could be the case that higher levels of management, where...

Please, please stop these 2+2=768 accusations. I’m in hospital with my mum and simply don’t have the time right now to protect people from themselves when they throw around unfounded accusations. I don’t want to shut discussion of this inportent subject down. I don’t want to ban people from...

I looked up Cartwright King earlier today to find out more about them. The first thing I came across was this... The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is going to have to wait until the end of the Post Office inquiry before it can take formal disciplinary action against any lawyers involved...

I wasn't suggesting any relevance or otherwise, merely responding to the point made - "no data locally - all central" - having heard today that clearly wasn't the case. Every system I've been involved in, which is a fair few, had simple command-line access which permitted all manner of manual...

Having listened to all of the Inquiry today, I think you're wrong on the bit in bold. One of the exchanges this afternoon, sometime between 2:30 and 3:00pm whilst I was out and about, covered the ISDN connectivity between post office branches and a data centre, but it was clear from the...

*Sigh* This is a perfect example of how I always regret contributing to threads like these. Yes, I've said 8-10 times, maybe more, on this very thread this morning that those at fault need to be found and punished appropriately. I've also suggested caution needs to be exercised in that...

There has been some of sorts. I haven't seen it, but I understand the old Panorama documentary was aired last night, and included a Fujitsu developer who whistle-blew on the ability for Fujitsu tech/support staff to remotely access individual post office systems, and make unauditable data...

Of course it does - no-one of right mind would suggest otherwise. But right-minded people also want the investigation to be thorough and find those who were aware of the problem and either did nothing about it or tried to hide the problem and allow prosecutions to continue. We don't need...

Like many, I guess, I've not been following this closely before the last week or so. But, from those who have, it sounds like your cynicism is well-placed as there have already been examples of potentially intentional obfuscation during the course of the Public Inquiry. But, I don't think that...

You'll see above that I'm not making any suggestion about any or all of the PO investigators. I'm merely saying that with the level of scrutiny on this now, and the desire to put things right, care has to be taken to not cast the truly innocent as culpable. Because doing that is what got us...

Let's be clear, I'm absolutely not saying "No Post Office investigator will have had anything to do with this" What I'm saying is that in the newly-acquired rush to put things right, the outcry to find those responsible and, from some quarters, a desire to find some scapegoats to pin the whole...

...or an ITV drama?

Thanks for the link. Care has to be taken to not demonise anyone who worked on and around the Horizon system. For example, I could imagine that someone who had the job of investigating potential theft/fraud day-to-day may not have any visibility of systems issues that could be causing some of...

I think there are two distinct things at play here... 1. Trying to put right the wrongs to those affected. In short: Quash the convictions and give them cash. For many, sadly, it's too late and for those still alive, nothing can really put things right, but "we are where we are" and we have to...

The Public Inquiry reconvenes today after their Christmas break and, obviously, is going to be somewhat higher-profile now.

I suspect some of us are speaking from our own work in large corporates on complex IT system developments where, in most cases, a technical architect will have been some distance from post-implementation support, bug remediation and ongoing system maintenance. By that time, they will have...

I'll intervene here. There's an X/twitter account posting under the pseudonym "Monsieur Cholet" - https://twitter.com/stugoo17 - who seems to follow the whole scandal closely. In one of their post they have linked a current Albion employee with being a Post Office investigator at the time of...