That was Jamail Singh - the Post Office LAWYER on the stand today. I'm not sure how stupid he thinks the rest of us are but the idea that a highly paid professional lawyer doesn't know how to save an MS Office file is farcical. The bloke is a grade A corrupt, lying cvnt.
Not sure it's the public that is the issue - it's the PO execs and lawyers denying that there was ever access .... or at least that they never 'knew' about it. Equally, it should have been PCI-DSS compliant - unaudited backdoor access to the data is not allowed in a PCI environment.
Another IT lifer - and let's remember applications and data generally are kept separate with only the application having access to add, change or delete data and then only with detailed audit trails.
Supposedly some of the most intelligent and well paid professions yet every single one a liar with a poor memory. Think this shot of one of the PO's lawyers from today somewhat show's he knows he's been caught lying.
As an aside, if I ever need a lawyer I want Jason Beer - great name and even...
Isn't that the same for all of them ? Every single one of the witnesses linked to the PO has started (and I paraphrase) 'I'm so sorry for the people that have been convicted unjustly.". Not a single one has held their hands up and said "Yes, I PERSONALLY got it wrong and should PERSONALLY be...
Lack of investment is what boils down to. I have a customer, I won't name them but they are a bank who everyone will have heard of, that has not invested in their IT infrastructure for years and keeps delaying projects to replace said EOL infrastructure. Yet they were surprised when it failed...
As someone that worked for Capita - who were a supplier of systems to HMRC - I call the HMRC statement out as utter bollocks. HMRC could never agree what they actually wanted from a system and then wondered why changes cost them money. Very similar to the NHS project EDS won to bring in a single...