Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?

A Bank-holiday weekend in the UK, the passport-control system (e-gates) goes down and all passports have to be checked manually, so huge queues etc. I'd assumed an unwise Friday deploy, but the press says the issue is "too sensitive to discuss", eg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65731795

Anyone with inside information they'd like to share?

There was an issue with France’s system too at Dover. It wouldn’t be tin foil hat territory to suggest a coordinated cyber attack.

I wonder who has snuck through the chaos. UK border control regularly fails when the systems up, god knows what about when they’re down

Some pod in CrashLoopBackOff somewhere.

Nah, just kidding, but the fact that it's country-wide indicates it's probably a server issue.

I've seen them running their stuff on Heroku, maybe nobody told them the free tier was going

Re: e-gates shambles

Fujitsu's contract runs from 4 September 2021 to 2024 https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/09/fujitsu_border_crossi... https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/14/uk_border_upgrade_con...

Re: Horizon disgrace

Fujitsu has also, so far, escaped financial penalties, whereas the government has been forced to set aside £1bn to cover the costs of compensating victims of the scandal. Meanwhile, Fujitsu is continuing to win significant IT projects with the UK government. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252526102/Fujitsu-to-fin...

UK Gov & Fujitsu smells bad