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S/w test consultant, formerly IT dev/audit/security. Dundee FC match reporter. Christian. (Buy me a book at https://t.co/Ytd8ARZBvW)
Perth, Scotland
Joined August 2008
I'm on Bluesky now. @jamesdchristie.bsky.social I hope to see some of you over there.
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This BBC story is relevant to the talk I gave in Edinburgh on Thursday. PFI was a totally inappropriate way to write contracts for developing systems like Horizon, and Fujitsu exploited the problems with the format. #PostOfficeScandal
https://t.co/KWsjNsct8L
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This story is relevant to the talk I gave on Thursday night in Edinburgh. I was arguing that a major cause of the problems with the Horizon development was that it was a PFI contract. Fujitsu...
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Last call for my talk in Edinburgh tomorrow. Eventbrite says there are a few tickets left. I promise to be both well informed and opinionated, which is a very polite word in the circumstances. I might well be less diplomatic when I start talking/ranting. https://t.co/SADMDd5Y4p
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The British Computer Society has released its submission to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on computer evidence. Instead of coming up with its own solution it has backed a proposal I helped craft in 2021. Perhaps we will actually see some action. https://t.co/bjStmnU2CT
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The Ministry of Justice wants ideas about how to improve the sorry state of computer evidence. I've put my submission here: https://t.co/qGIem5D27Q (@james_christie has also put his excellent submission on line)
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I have made my submission to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on computer evidence in England & Wales. Here is my contribution in which I argue that the presumption of the reliability of computer evidence is misconceived and must be replaced. https://t.co/UGHciTicbi
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Use of Evidence Generated by Software in Criminal Proceedings In January 2025 the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on how courts should deal with computer evidence in England and Wales. …
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Come along if you want to hear me being extremely rude about the senior management at Fujitsu and the Post Office when the wretched Horizon system was built. My talk's polite subtitle is; "They didn't know what they were doing". #PostOfficeScandal
https://t.co/tW5QWp8IJt
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I played with X's Grok. It was alarming. It seems I graduated from Edinburgh Uni in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science, and I slagged off Capita after working for them as a consultant. Reader: Grok's version of my career is low-grade bollocks. Beware! https://t.co/LOQmTvFcxx
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On Wednesday, 5 March 2025, I decided to play with Twitter/X’s Grok 3 AI tool. My game was to play the role of someone trying to track me down based on sketchy details from my past. It took Grok a …
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I'm playing with Twitter's Grok AI tool. I asked about James Christie, testing consultant from Perth. Grok made a defamatory allegation that I'd breached client confidentiality. I objected. Grok grovelled, saying it meant a different James Christie, testing consultant from Perth.
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Part 3 of my series about Fujitsu incompetence. "They didn’t know what they were doing, part 3 – Fujitsu believed what it wanted to believe" How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they couldn't know Horizon evidence would be used to prosecute postmasters? https://t.co/veZkBXBjzP
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How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they thought Horizon would not be used for criminal evidence? In the first part of this series, “A contractual mess”, I explained some of the contractual confus…
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This is the second part of my blog series arguing that Fujitsu and the Post Office were appallingly vague about the purposes of Horizon when the system was built. "They didn’t know what they were doing, part 2 – an excruciating failure to dispel confusion" https://t.co/xBVUmPjnfE
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Blundering through a fog of confusionThis is the second part of my series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system t…
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The Post Office and Horizon were never clear about the purposes of Horizon when the system was built in the 1990s. The question of computer evidence was handled with astonishing incompetence and irresponsibility. Nobody seemed to care. https://t.co/cpzJ8mP7ah
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This will be a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. Both corporations were hop…
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That link doesn't work for some reason. This one should, to my list of people interested in the #PostOfficeScandal. https://t.co/u5aP4nuUhq
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This Bluesky starter pack for the #postofficescandal is far too short. Get involved! https://t.co/nH06Ye99jI
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This is what I'm currently working on (when I find the time). https://t.co/VkiF59DTET
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Are people who are still on Twitter thinking of moving, or are they already on an alternative? If so, where? If it's not on the list, or if you actively use multiple platforms please add a reply.
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I've worked as an IT auditor in financial services and an information security manager so yes, I do agree with this. "NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger" https://t.co/7bNhHYZLmY
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Employees must stick to official channels to make sure their messages are fully retrievable.
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My father at the grave of his friend, David Plummer, alongside whom he served in 1st Airlanding Light Regiment. David was killed at the age of 19 at Arnhem in September 1944. We remember.
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Total reliance on system testing? Oh dear. She probably meant acceptance testing, but that hardly makes it better. One to one mapping of requirements to scripts? Really? Give me strength. That's an utterly ridiculous, amateurish approach! 2/2 https://t.co/I92n8Lt5G2
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