I am pretty sure I was bitten by this bug, or a similar bug, on an IRA transfer form that I uploaded to a bank. On the scan that I uploaded, one digit in the account number was a clean "5", but the customer service person said it looked like a good clean "6". I presume their document management system was an outcropping of a system originally set up for dealing with faxes, and used that or a similar compression algorithm.

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21asdffdsa12 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Thus - one could assume that all transfers stored by the bank- before the update would not hold up in court.

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mindslight 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know what you mean by "hold up in court". This seems to be an instance of software engineers making sweeping prognostications about legal matters.

"Hold up in court" as in was it duly executed and filed by a certain date, regardless of the time and extra management required for the bank's performance? Yes, why not.

"Hold up in court" against someone claiming it was an unauthorized transfer? Even without the bug, that can be contested in many straightforward ways!

But unless there is a specific legal claim that hinges on the bug being significant, it's pretty irrelevant "in court". I knew about this precisely because the transfer failed to go through due to redundancy - one digit in account numbers is generally a check digit, plus account titles and whatnot.

In general you can always challenge the validity of scanned documents, regardless of known software bugs or not! Just like you can always challenge that a paper document is a forgery. You need a specific argument and some evidence though!

	▲	21asdffdsa12 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The specific argument could be that the sum entered was falsified by the process digitalizing. And any checksum that would have caught that- would be computed after scanning.

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lotsofpulp 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

One should assume the outcome of one's case in court is at least partially, if not heavily, influenced by one's political (influential-ness) standing.

	▲	inquirerGeneral 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
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