Hackernews posts about Post Office
Post Office is a government-run postal service provider in the United Kingdom that was embroiled in a scandal involving the wrongful conviction and persecution of its own employees due to faulty computer software.
- French, German post offices restrict package deliveries to US due to tariffs (www.france24.com)
- Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is 'potential conflict of interest' (www.computerweekly.com)
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- LibreOffice 25.8 in Windows 7 x64 ESU environment (trackerninja.codeberg.page)
- How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives (www.cnn.com)
- Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
- British Post Office Scandal (en.wikipedia.org)
- Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed (www.computerweekly.com)
- French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp (www.theguardian.com)
- UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each (www.theguardian.com)
- Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
- The tech that the US Post Office gave us (www.theverge.com)
- Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know (www.computerweekly.com)
- US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
- Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021) (www.new-east-archive.org)
- Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds (www.theguardian.com)
- Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes (www.theregister.com)
- Post office doxes all postmasters targeted in horizon scandal (www.bbc.co.uk)
- Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job' (www.thetimes.com)
- Fujitsu says it will pay compensation in UK Post Office scandal (www.japantimes.co.jp)
- What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial (www.benthamsgaze.org)
- Post Office tried to 'hush up' case of worker who killed himself, inquiry hears (www.theguardian.com)
- Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: 'horrific' potential data breach (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- Ex-Fujitsu engineer admits changing court testimony at request of Post Office (www.theguardian.com)
- UK Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal (www.telegraph.co.uk)
- A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued (www.washingtonpost.com)
- UK Post Office burns 31M pounds on failed cloud migration (www.thestack.technology)
- More faulty UK Post Office IT wrecks lives (news.sky.com)