Post Office found 123 bugs in Capture system but still prosecuted sub-postmasters

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1. Send em down, nothing worse than messing up but culling innocent people to save face. The worst kind.

2. Obviously we know that what came next with Horizon is a horrendous scandal and miscarriage of justice, but this is a garbage article really.

   At least 123 bugs identified over several years of a project to deliver a complex enterprise system? No shit. They thought it was unlikely they’d fixed every bug? No shit.

   Were any of these bugs thought to be in any way related to anything to do with the scandal? Were those 123 reference numbers actually uniquely identified bugs, or were they just call reference numbers? Well, that sounds a bit too much like investigative journalism.

   Any sufficiently complex application is going to have hundreds or thousands of identified issues over its lifetime. Most of them are fixed, hopefully before it even gets out the door, but anyone who is working on an application more complex than “hello world” who thinks that they can confidently declare they there are no unidentified bugs is a fool.

3. There isn’t a piece of enterprise software in the world that doesn’t have a bug list hundreds of items long.

   A “bug” here can be anything from a major defect through to the wrong font being used.

4. Post office executives and lawyers withheld crucial information, continued with prosecutions that would never have happened had they disclosed evidence instead of shredding it.

5. The headline should read…employees of the post office found bugs in Capture system.