If one single judge would not give them a free pass, I think we would see a sea change in how computer security is handled across the industry. Put one CEO in prison for criminal negligence after a breach when it is found that they hired cheap, inexperienced, tiny staffs, overloaded them with work, and then ignored absolutely every warning they gave about insecure practices. Every company does this. It's how IT works in the modern world. Hire "engineers" as inexperienced and cheap as possible, give an MBA all the actual say in scheduling and release dates, and constantly complain about the technology that makes their business possible is too expensive.
It's amazing the effect a CEO locked in a cage for a few years like an animal has on the population of CEOs as a whole. Treat digital infrastructure like we treat real infrastructure. If people built bridges the way we build software infrastructure, rafts of executives would be rotting in prison.
It's amazing the effect a CEO locked in a cage for a few years like an animal has on the population of CEOs as a whole. Treat digital infrastructure like we treat real infrastructure. If people built bridges the way we build software infrastructure, rafts of executives would be rotting in prison.