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Computer Reliability: Legal Presumptions and Safety must align if we are to have justice! Background The ‘Horizon’ Scandal in the UK was a major miscarriage of justice: Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 sub postmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried […]
Read articleTL;DR Updating Legal Presumptions for Computer Reliability must happen if we are to have justice! Background The ‘Horizon’ Scandal in the UK was a major miscarriage of justice: Between 1999 and 2015, over 900 sub postmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions […]
Read articleSo, how do we identify and analyze functional hazards? I’ve seen a lot of projects and programs. We’re great at doing the physical hazards, but not so good at the functional hazards. So, when I talk about physical and functional hazards, the physical stuff, I think we’re probably all very familiar with them. They’re all […]
Read articleThe following is a short, but excellent, introduction to the topic of ‘Functional Safety’ by the United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive (UK HSE). It is equally applicable outside the UK, and the British Standards (‘BS EN’) are versions of international ISO/IEC standards – e.g. the Australian version (‘AS/NZS’) is often identical to the British […]
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