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On “The Horizon IT system - how buggy software written in an ancient programming language caused disaster”
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Post Office Horizon Scandal - Computerphile
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- Presented by Steven Murdoch, Professor of Security Engineering at UCL
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Steven Murdoch explains the software bugs and system failures in the Horizon IT system that led to wrongful convictions.
Computer bugs were found to be the reason many sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongly convicted of stealing and false accounting. Professor Steven Murdoch, a professor of Security Engineering and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at UCL explains the sorts of faults that were found. EXTRA BITS: youtu.be/1GnRlOgEIlo Professor Murdoch's blog post about this: bit.ly/C_PostOfficeBlog BBC Podcast about the Post Office Scandal: bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.comWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended for its explanation of the technical faults behind the Horizon IT scandal.