A Book That Everybody Should READ
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A tightly focused recommendation of a forensic book about the Horizon accounting system used in British Post Offices in the early 2000s, tracing how software bugs, missing oversight and misleading error logs lead prosecutors to rely on faulty evidence. The book documents several hundred wrongful convictions, jailings and suicides, details the code and audit practices that failed, and shows how independent review and new testing finally expose the root causes. Software logs used as evidence is treated as a central mistake.
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