It could all have been so easily avoided…
Just a few days ago, the ongoing saga of the failures of the Post Office’s ‘Horizon’ software, raised its head(ache) once again.
In a nutshell, the Post Office previously prosecuted a large number of postmasters, accusing them of stealing money — leading to many being fired, going bankrupt or even sent to prison.
However, reports started to surface, that the system was unreliable and that senior Post Office managers were told back in 2011 that computer technicians also had access to the system and could change postmasters’ data.
An Ernst and Young audit report, which was sent to Post Office directors, says it “has again identified weaknesses” in the Horizon system.
The underlying problem here is the inherent fallibility of traditional databases and their inability to provide a single source of truth and proof, which makes them fundamentally unreliable. Whether through nefarious intervention, coding bugs, or simple human errors, the data is corruptible. This makes it both harder for organisations such as the Post Office, to identify actual fraud, and easier for situations like this to occur — a nightmare situation for countless innocent people.
Evident Proof’s solution allows organisation to create unhackable and unchangeable (immutable) stores of important business data and at the press of a button, generate irrefutable evidence when challenges arise, which could have prevented the terrible and unfortunate story.
