Comment on Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door
QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The question I’ve had, why did Fujitsu place a backdoor in the horizon system?
Comment on Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door
QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The question I’ve had, why did Fujitsu place a backdoor in the horizon system?
palordrolap@kbin.social 2 months ago
Probably because some n-eyes (is n still 5?) nation state "we're the good guys, honest" protocol insisted that there be one. And if it wasn't that it was probably some misguided attempt to permit remote maintenance.
The former hiding as the latter is not impossible either.
cflewis@programming.dev 2 months ago
My guess is it’s much simpler: some genius at Fujitsu thought it would be helpful if they could remotely log in to machines for support reasons. They (unreasonably) didn’t want to send people onsite and they (reasonably) didn’t think Post Office workers would be able to resolve issues over the phone.