> The paper also suggests a potential change to regulation—making individuals within a company responsible for what goes wrong within that company’s IT systems. “When you personally are liable, and you can be made bankrupt or sent to prison, it changes [the situation] a great deal, including the amount of attention paid to it,” Warren says. “You treat it very seriously, because it’s your personal wealth and your personal liberty at stake.”
Being sent to prison for buggy code... that's quite extreme. Are people even fired for buggy code? If we want to get more extreme than firing, how about losing 1 year's compensation in addition to being fired.
Being sent to prison for buggy code... that's quite extreme. Are people even fired for buggy code? If we want to get more extreme than firing, how about losing 1 year's compensation in addition to being fired.