Probably the Lazarus group.
We’ll find out next season!
Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
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Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#12Underpaid third-world slave working for whatever shitty consultancy got the contract pushed the wrong button.
It's "too sensitive to discuss" because it would be inconvenient to admit that the people who have privileged access to this system aren't paid enough to give a shit and are very vulnerable to bribery.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#13I'm not sure why this should affect holidaymakers, if I remember correctly passports are checked on the way in, but not when going out of the UK correct?
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#14Underpaid third-world slave working for whatever shitty consultancy got the contract pushed the wrong button. It's "too sensitive to discuss" because it would be inconvenient to admit that the people who have privileged access to this system aren't paid enough to give a shit and are very vulnerable to bribery.
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#15There 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
Or they both used the same vendor and had the same issue.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#16I'm not sure why this should affect holidaymakers, if I remember correctly passports are checked on the way in, but not when going out of the UK correct?
Holidaymakers need to return home eventually.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#17No insight here, but I've always wondered if the e-gates are doing anything "clever" with the camera, or if they're just connecting you to some call-centre in Swindon where your face and passport details pop up in front of someone with a lot less training than traditional border security.
It might be doing facial recognition, but it feels too reliable for the level of facial recognition I expect a consultancy could pull off in a government contract.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#18Underpaid third-world slave working for whatever shitty consultancy got the contract pushed the wrong button. It's "too sensitive to discuss" because it would be inconvenient to admit that the people who have privileged access to this system aren't paid enough to give a shit and are very vulnerable to bribery.
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A good Indian or Nigerian engineer is just as good as a Californian or British one.
But there are outsourcing companies who put junior developers on difficult projects with almost no support and then overwork them. It’s not racism or colonialism to say such people won’t produce high quality systems. It’s the rich exploiting the poor, rather than one country exploiting another.
I have no idea whether any of this is relevant to the e-gates issue.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#19I'm not sure why this should affect holidaymakers, if I remember correctly passports are checked on the way in, but not when going out of the UK correct?
Holidaymakers tend to return from holiday as much as they go.
Outbound flights can be delayed too if people can’t disembark from planes because the terminal is over capacity in the arrivals side.
Re: Ask HN: Cause of UK e-gates outage?
#20Re: 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 con…
They honestly should be blacklisted after the Horizon scandal. Allowing them to get away with it sets a precedent that could encourage other companies to behave just as irresponsibly.
As it stands, is yet another example of privatising profits while socialising the costs, just in this case, the costs weren't (entirely) financial.