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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

Who in the PO signed off on the decision to execute the recusal application against Fraser J in 2019? It must have been at the very Top of PO or GOV and was effectively pressing the nuke button in your dying breath, wasting £m’s of tax payer cash and adding that the legal costs.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

Watching the commons statement anyone would think that it was the MP’s sterling efforts over the many years that finally uncovered this situation.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

8 months

@JoHamil73963257 @KemiBadenoch @kevinhollinrake @liambyrnemp Well done @JoHamil73963257 .They just simply dont get it, they live in a different world.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@TomWitherow @TomWitherow Post Office had my Expert Report in 2003 telling them the system was faulty and they could not rely on the evidence from it in its Cleavleys case

Jason Coyne - Susanne Helliwell - Day 59 (26 July 2023) - Post Office...

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@nickwallis @Karlfl if any current or past sPM’s need help considering or dealing with resistance to claims (such as ‘losses do not relate to horizon’ etc) then I’m happy to assist them at zero cost. I will retain independence, not hired gun but might be of benefit.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

Very clear, considered and concise.

Monsieur Cholet

@stugoo17

10 months

#MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesvsPostOffice #PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #JusticeForPostMasters Forensic God IAN HENDERSON of Second Sight - an isolated edit of his evidence to the BEIS Select Committee. Tuesday 3 February 2015, The Wilson Room, Portcullis

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

SPM’s might not only have been exposed to shortfalls caused by bugs, errors and defects in Horizon but also bugs, errors and defects in Post Office’s 3rd party ‘clients’ who processed sPM transaction data and fed it into horizon back end.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

#PostOfficeScandal from todays hearing the timing of the 2010 discovered receipts and payment mismatch bug and the preparation for the @SeemaMisra7 trial. The actions of PO “expert witness”, legal team and decisions makers surely must be considered for conspiring to pervert?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

#PostOfficeScandal #MrBatesvsPostOffice just done BBC breakfast talking about 2003/4 horizon case

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

#PostOfficeScandal

ITV Granada Reports

@GranadaReports

9 months

Lancashire IT expert says Post Office 'ignored warnings of software faults 20 years ago'. Jason Coyne said the 'bugs and errors were there' and they pressed ahead blaming the sub-postmasters

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

11 months

Friday night in watching Elaine Tagg (Cottam) in #horizoninquiry “I might have signed it but I didn’t write it”

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

8 months

I’m speaking today @TechShowLondon with @nickwallis . One of the key event messages is do no harm. Over breakfast I had the opportunity to rewatch one of the inquiry submission from dec 2022 from @edwardhenry1 the harm that the Horizon systems, supporting processes and corp

Edward Henry KC

@edwardhenry1

8 months

In the week it was revealed that the Post Office had spent twice as much on lawyers than on compensation, here are my submissions from December 2022 during the Compensation Hearing PM (08 Dec 2022) - Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry via @YouTube

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

Off counter’ transactions (Camelot, Paystation etc etc ) that come in to sPM accounts via transaction acknowledgment (TA) are the next minefield, I reported it in the GLO but did not have full evidence. It now appears that Oths looked at this and told PO of the risks.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@PaulMar72224296 @stugoo17 Network banking, lottery, fx, ATM, phone top ups and any other 3rd party PO sales were reliant on non horizon data but that non horizon data would later interface with horizon into the back end interfaces (typically overnight, but some weekly) and that could cause adjustments to

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

Just done interviews with Radio5 live and Times radio on the 2003 Cleavleys report. ITV northwest tonight and talkTV tomorrow. #HorizonScandal

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@darrenpjones Diligently doing job is surely part of what you do for your salary? Assisting the inquiry is a duty. Why did anyone think that 100% compliance with a task should attract a bonus? These are experienced high salary adults not dogs or children.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

Needs a better briefing.

Deirdre Heenan

@deirdreheenan

10 months

Rishi Sunak tells #bbclaurak the Post Office miscarriages of justice were “something that happened a VERY long time ago- in the 90s” Meanwhile, the Post Office have admitted that between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 managers were accused of fraud due to flawed computer evidence.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

7 months

After speaking at @TechShowLondon , I had the fantastic opportunity to engage with several Chief Technology Officers from big name global companies. It's evident that the red flags observed in the Post Office regarding Horizon are also prevalent in many other tech-enabled firms,

TechInformed

@TechInformed

7 months

What can enterprises learn from the #PostOffice ’s Horizon IT #scandal ? ✉️ Last week at @TechShowLondon , freelance investigative journalist @nickwallis spoke to @Coyne_Expert about his role in proving that earlier system versions were faulty. Read:

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

Admin: “when we have restored the back up, the data is three years old” Me: “can I see your daily backup logs?” Admin: “we don’t have logs, but I thought we would have seen an error if it was not working”

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@Janetsk20073533 @stugoo17 @RonRwarming @forensicgod @PostOffice @fujitsu_uk Thanks Janet, your words mean a lot to me. I was just this morning watching your appearance on talk tv and it moved me. Whilst my professional opinions and investigations are never influenced by human impacts, I feel driven that the true must be discovered.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@DanNeidle @legalclaret @GBisBroken @sheilaoliver16 @CastletonLee @RichardMoorhead @nickwallis I’m happy to help this filtration process, from a horizon tech/PO process perspective

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@RichardMoorhead @ArchNichola I still to this day don’t know how PO manage to get away with not answering some key Expert’s questions in GLO put to them under CPR35.14. The full RFI doc was over 100 pages but looking back on what was not answered, its now becoming clear why. @Jusmasel2015

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

I think I recall a PO witness to inquiry saying that there was no NDA in your case. Perhaps the @PostOffInquiry should ask that witness to correct their mistake.

Julie Wolstenholme

@PostieJulie1965

9 months

Just to be 100% clear, because people keep asking on my Twitter messages. I signed an agreement not to talk about my personal involvement with the Horizon case and I will not be breaking my word.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@VarchasPatel I’m not close enough to the counter process, but risk is: £10 transaction entered off counter and £10 received into till. off counter provider has bug/error/defect in its own system and reports to PO that it was £20 transaction. SPM gets rolled up TA with £20 and forced it accept

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@BrianARogers62 @CastletonLee I’ve designed and managed ediscovery exercises across many jurisdictions since 2011 to present. I’ve never seen such a selection and review process that had not been approved by the person signing off the disclosure statement (I.e POL) I can’t see external legal taking this risk

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@stugoo17 @Jusmasel2015 They have many document now that were not available to the GLO, likely will surface soon.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@Jusmasel2015 Might have a go at that.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@RonRwarming Thanks @RonRwarming

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

8 months

Not like Post Office to attempt to ride roughshod over the statutory process when it suits them.

Chair’s Statement on Phase 4 written closing submissions on behalf of the Post Office

www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@FloraClairePage @teem50 @stugoo17 @RichardMoorhead @brianwhelton @Jusmasel2015 risk with deleting a message store and rebuilding from another node is that you don’t have any way to validate the integrity of the node being used as source. We know node hard drives where suffering significant sector failure therefore source could be missing tx’s

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@nickwallis @Waterstones @thetimes @ITV Well played @nickwallis . I feel guilty having a copy but not having bought it. Perhaps I’ll buy and gift a copy.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Bingbong0055 @joe_armitage But to be fair, those questions are to illicit dialogue with the visitor and judge risk based on the response - content and delivery. It’s not just for a chat.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Karlfl Very well deserved by Alan, but a master stoke to reject and further highlight the continuing injustice.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@Jusmasel2015 When sorry seems to be the hardest word.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@RichardMoorhead @ArchNichola @Jusmasel2015 This was annexed as appx1 to my 2nd expert report and disclosed as part of the GLO trial.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Jusmasel2015 The other poss of losses (or gains) with ATM’s is the the ATM’s reported the cash position to the bank and the bank reported to POL we know that this back end interface could suffer bugs/errs/defects and POL by default took bank position as truth. lottery was same.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@RichardMoorhead The term ‘near dupes’ was mentioned by the PO in house Counsel. Assessing based on ‘near dupes’ can be very risky when it comes to email and families, and you need to test and retest the near dupe thresholds. The only safe dedupe is based on forensic match (called MD5 matching)

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@PaulMar72224296 @CastletonLee @RichardMoorhead @PeterHoward9090 @mkiceburnmarko A redacted version was produced in Bates, I remember reading it and I think commented on it in one of the reports.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@PeterHoward9090 @mkiceburnmarko @RichardMoorhead Relativity will handle the review of family documents, they are displayed like a family tree but it appears that a decision was taken (don't know by who or when) that you do not need to review other documents in the family if they do not contain the target word

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@JohnRConstable @Karlfl Hi @JohnRConstable . Great insight, thank you. In the early 2000’s did you get any visibility of the poor quality hard drives on the horizon terminals? The docs that I was later seeing in Bates suggested a high rate of disk sector failure in the early days. Also would be

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@brianwhelton @Steel_Con Although I’m shocked by that original LinkedIn text, I attended a number of meetings during the GLO where WBD where there representing PO and resisting my requests to examine evidence, so not surprised at the sentiment.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@Karlfl @Karlfl - how many other systems are producing data used in criminal prosecutions? These will likely have similar bugs/errors and defects but go unchallenged

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@RichardMoorhead You can safely say if two documents have matching MD5’s they are forensically identical so only need to read one. With ‘near dupe’ they only x% the same (and therefore are different) the difference could conceivably be an extra attached document or a couple of different words.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

7 months

@james_christie @alikelman In cases involving complex digital evidence, only defendants with significant financial resources can afford a proper defense on their own. This is because Legal Aid funding falls short of covering the extensive time investment required for such cases, at rates not acceptable to

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Jusmasel2015 @PostOffInquiry Yes, could be gains or loss for the SPM. the bugs/error/defects often lost an actual transaction or one part of the transaction was duplicated. But also consider the network banking customers who paid cash over the counter via Horizon, did it always make it to their bank account?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

So glad that my dad bought me that Sinclair ZX81 AND I did not have to wait until Christmas.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@innermigration @RichardMoorhead Yes very good tool, can we collaborate on the data?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@brianwhelton @innermigration @Jusmasel2015 @stugoo17 @GouldsBlog Good chance. I’ve also had a nod that I might be called again also

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@james_christie @EeHRN Yes I agree with that.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@RichardMoorhead @PeterHoward9090 @mkiceburnmarko Might be, but typically if I was in KPMG's position (and I have in many other unrelated and non-PO matters) then I would not make that de-dupe/near-dupe decision without first ensuring the client understood the impact & getting it signed off. I dont know the facts here.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

11 months

In the latest PO letter re: latest disclosure failures, it was said that GLO disclosure also from mimecast, so will have suffered from the similar impact. I.e data will have been missing.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@stugoo17 @FloraClairePage @Jusmasel2015 @CastletonLee @brianwhelton No, I did not ever get inside a horizon terminal.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@PaulMar72224296 Very thoughtful report Paul. Through Horizons operational life there were many different bugs, errors and defects that resulted in a receipts and payment mismatch, not just one bug. The Experts Joint statement 2 and 3 (Horizon issues) set these out in a table.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

WhatsApp messages are not only stored on the user iPhone, if you have control over the phone number (I.e from having the sim or getting the network to give you a new sim in that telephone number) you can retrieve the old WhatsApp messages and media of that user without the phone

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@stugoo17 Faced with two different figures of a transaction, one from Post Office client and the other from sPMs horizon till roll, it appear PO most often took the clients value and issued a TC to sPM to pay the difference.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @Jusmasel2015 @mkiceburnmarko Oh. I was going to the inquiry on Thursday and Friday of next week to hear what GJ and AC were going to say. Are neither appearing now?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@sjmurdoch @FloraClairePage @stugoo17 @brianwhelton @teem50 @Jusmasel2015 @RichardMoorhead The initial requirement was for all on site nodes to sync over lan to node1 (“the gateway”) then node1 to call home (fj) to sync once a day via pstn, later upgraded to isdn then adsl but still with legacy horizon (<2010) it was offline then sync when connection is detected.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@chrish9070 @PaulMar72224296 @james_christie @CastletonLee @beisgovuk 100%

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@MichelleMone @DHSCgovuk Scotch C90?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@james_christie @Jusmasel2015 @CastletonLee And an experienced technical expert, with sufficient budget and determined use of CPR35.14 to gain access to evidence. None of which are practically available on legally aided matters.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@chrish9070 @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko In 2004 I examined some Helpdesk call logs from 2001/2002 (spm/po/fj) at the time I said, sounds like terminal hardware as many operating system crash dumps/panic logs being collected. I requested the logs via parties but the case went away (at least from me) Inquiry is aware.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @darrenpjones @FT @CommonsBTC How low must your expectation be of your executive board if you need to incentivise hundreds of thousands of pounds of essentially tax payer money just to get them to deliver your own documents to the inquiry on time? …they largely failed…but the bonus were paid anyway.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @CWUPostmaster Agreed but if the bug was with lottery terminal the prize win might not be shown at end of day report. All PO have in audit data is the TA amount from Camelot which might match their faulty lottery terminal. Only Theoretical risk, I accept. But multiple by all 3rd party systems

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@GouldsBlog @CWU_Huw If you include bates the figure I bet it will be 2.5x that figure with the wider ‘litigation support’ services.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Jusmasel2015 No, I’ve had a quick read of all my served GLO expert reports and joint statements, I don’t believe it appears. KEL (know errors) LKiang2837P references “counter freezing when PM selects Transaction Correction”. But that’s from 2005

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@chrish9070 @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko Not familiar. Two are disk subsystem faults (physical). The file allocation table says the file is on the disk but when the sector is visited it’s not there or different size than record in FAT (or equivalent). One is virtual memory which should not make it out in the wild!

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @nashoban_info @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko FJ could ‘push’ a request to reboot from head office. Either ‘do it overnight’ or ‘do it now’. In addition the horizon terminal looked for new updates (bug fixes/adjustments/log collect etc) when it booted but this required good coms and might in itself require multiple reboots.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@CastletonLee in Relativity, the system used by PO to host the review. Each item (doc/attachment etc) has its own activity log, so an admin could determine when/if any doc (or one of its dupes) was displayed to a reviewer and what the reviewer marked the document with. Would be helpful to see

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@mkiceburnmarko @PaulMar72224296 @CastletonLee @RichardMoorhead @PeterHoward9090 If memory serves it was said to relate to additional elements outside of the agreed horizon issues being dealt with in that specific trial.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

Very interesting analysis.

Richard Moorhead

@RichardMoorhead

1 year

John Sutherland has been taking a look at PO Board culture… #postofficescandal

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@brianwhelton @Jusmasel2015 @Wipro @fujitsu_uk And why was the report not disclosed in bates trial? I would struggle to see it’s not relevant or privileged. It was a category of document that was requested from PO.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@stugoo17 @JohnCollinsWGC @aviationcomment @forensicgod @brianwhelton Agreed. Need a shared doc /knowledge repo with a private chat.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@pope2023 @mkiceburnmarko @BrianARogers62 @CastletonLee Too risky, you would need knowledge of specific internal key words, document types then what systems would you say need to be searched? Possible, but across multiple docs owners something would be missed and the argument would be “you never said we needed to search x”

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@jasondarcy6 @Janetsk20073533 @stugoo17 @RonRwarming @forensicgod @PostOffice @fujitsu_uk Oh thank you.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@Jusmasel2015 I best keep me head down.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @CWUPostmaster if Camelot sys had a bug and did not record a £10 prize you paid out, they could not tell PO your correct balance…your TA would be wrong and your branch account then shortfall. How would sPM check as lottery terminal likely does not have the correct record of the £10 payout.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@mkiceburnmarko @pope2023 @BrianARogers62 @CastletonLee Unlikely to be inquiry. It did not set the search strategy or method, just scope of documents to be disclosed, it’s for the doc owners to decide how best to locate and produce them.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@pope2023 @mkiceburnmarko @BrianARogers62 @CastletonLee Easy with knowledge of the systems but needs contemp in-house knowledge of what such docs might be called (or what language is contained within). Agree all perfectly manageable. KPMG are doing it from the inside, not externally stating how it need to be done.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@MichelleMone Nothing like in the films, the criminals when planning a heist normally agree “if anyone gets caught then keep your mouth shut”

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@teem50 @sjmurdoch @brianwhelton @stugoo17 @RichardMoorhead @Jusmasel2015 Operating system was NT 3.5.1 then 4 in the early days. Bad block/disk sectors were problematic with the initial write so often nothing to sync p2p. Although you should have been to detect the missing transactionID but that become part of the later back end checks.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@chrish9070 @nashoban_info @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko So either would have been available a controlled power cycle (issue shutdown to all processes, allow timeout etc) or kill straight away. It’s just like the ‘init’ functionality in *nux. It’s likely they went for controlled else they are creating the position for additional issues

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@mkiceburnmarko @ReadOnly67976 @stugoo17 @chrish9070 If pre-2010 (horizon,legacy) then yes. If transactions did not need online check then messages (transactions) written locally and replicated across terminals in branch to provide some fault tolerance until periodically polling took place.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@ncseymour @CastletonLee @scepticalists @DanNeidle @TheLoblaw There always needed to be a support function to provide a) remote access and b) insert journaling entries to correct faults (all systems are fallible) That said, both functions needed to be securely controlled, verbosely audited and publicly accepted.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

#PostOffceScandal #MrBatesVersusThePostOffive

Post Office scandal: Sub-postmasters used as 'guinea pigs' to grind out issues in Horizon, says...

IT expert Jason Coyne was instructed to examine the accounting system as part of a civil case in 2003, but after he flagged his concerns, the Post Office decided to settle the case out of court, and...

news.sky.com

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@KateJon41196503 @stugoo17 @Jusmasel2015 It’s defo a risk…if you have the TA’s then where did PO get that information from to issue you with a TA? It has to be PO’s client (pay station) who provided it to PO and have just passed it on to you. So something that need investigation.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

7 months

@ian_straughan @Karlfl It’s a disposable email address created by someone with a apple device wanting to protect anonymity

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

#PostOfficeScandal

Sky News

@SkyNews

9 months

Sub-postmasters used as 'guinea pigs' to grind out Horizon issues, says expert who issued 2003 warning

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@chrish9070 @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko 2014, so horizon X less dependant on HDD for longer term transaction (if comms working then only transaction in progress stored locally then pushed) . Lkely why they focused on fixing telecoms.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@PeterHoward9090 @Justlur97399145 @CastletonLee @RichardMoorhead @BrianARogers62 The best start is to speak to the document owners to understand the types, formats, locations where stored, then build a keyword list and series of search patterns (OCR+Boolean) that would locate candidate documents to be presented to intelligence reviewers in their families.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@CWUPostmaster @stugoo17 She suffered the horizon issues in 2000

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@ArchNichola @Janetsk20073533 @stugoo17 @RonRwarming @forensicgod @PostOffice @fujitsu_uk Thanks @ArchNichola

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@Karlfl I bet Yes. Not seen evidence either way though.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@Jusmasel2015 Whilst the report PO ref may be the owned by the bank. PO must have an internal report where they are considering if the theft had any impact on sPM’sand this will be PO’s and should be disclosed

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@RichardMoorhead @PeterHoward9090 @mkiceburnmarko Yes, that was my reading of what PO said.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@Jusmasel2015 @nickwallis @Karlfl The known error logs (KELs and Peaks) when provided to me were all separate documents (many thousands of text files) disclosed over an extended period, It would not surprise me to find that these were each considered prior to me seeing them.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

2 years

@ReadOnly67976 @stugoo17 @mkiceburnmarko @chrish9070 No short answer to this. But In different ways on horizon to horizon-X (pre-post 2010). My first and supplemental report as well as the joint expert statement (think there were 6) May assist. I recall doing a failure mode diagram as a anne to one report but can’t remember which.

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

@TimMeggs So true, I’ve look at enterprise systems where there is no knowledge left within the organisation of how the data flows. Management petrified if they ever need to just reboot any part of the system. No one knows disaster recovery plans. Backup confidence simply built on

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

1 year

@CWUPostmaster When cash is paid out to winning lottery winners, say £10 i) does the £10 come out of sPM’s cash drawer or is there a separate Camelot cash drawer? ii) is the sPM effectively negative until the TA arrives? iii) is the TA a rolled up total of all Camelot? iv) frequency of ta?

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

10 months

@RosieBrock71780 @chrish9070 I think the decision was so significant in terms of impact that all would have wanted ‘coverage’ for the very top. Must/should have been considerable SWOT analysis, senior presentations budget allocation, PR prep etc etc

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Jason Coyne

@Coyne_Expert

9 months

I knew it was sent by Fraser J. But first time i’ve actually seen it.

ETHICAL APPROACH UK

@EthicalApproach

9 months

@stugoo17 @RBSlielikeadog Worth seeing a confidential letter from the managing judge, to the DPP, from 14/01/2020 👇🏻

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