Comment by jen20
6 days ago
> They are assumed correct in UK courts. IT systems were legally considered infallible
This will change when elected officials start getting hoisted by their own electronic petards.
The Venn diagram of midwit enterprise developers who build systems with audit trails yet could not swear under penalty of perjury that the audit trail is absolutely correct in every case is almost a circle.
Show me a system for which you believe the audit trail is absolutely correct in every case and I’ll show you a midwit…
It is straightfoward to build systems which derive their state from the audit trail instead of building the audit trail in parallel. That is what event sourcing is.
TIL, thanks!
I was attempting to emphasize the absurdity of any software system being “absolutely correct at all times”. I don’t believe such a system can exist, at least not in such strong terms.
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I may be dumb but isn't this what a merkle tree does? Or the blockchain sort of does (with 51% confidence?)