The software industry is full of should-be-criminal forms of negligence.
Things are already horrendously bad. Basically every American's identity could stolen at this point. If any nation state or other actor decided to operationalize any of the big leaks -- eg OPM or EquiFax -- the ramifications would be catastrophic. Imagine millions of people losing their retirement accounts and all their savings. Even if you could correct everything -- and that's a big if -- the process might take years and the intervening panic would be deafening. The amount of anger might even elicit a hot response.
To say nothing of more serious vulnerabilities. We really dodged a bullet on the pipeline ransomware.
I'm morbidly curious how bad of a "Cyber 9/11" we'll need before software starts being taken seriously as an engineering field in which practitioners have professional responsibility.
Things are already horrendously bad. Basically every American's identity could stolen at this point. If any nation state or other actor decided to operationalize any of the big leaks -- eg OPM or EquiFax -- the ramifications would be catastrophic. Imagine millions of people losing their retirement accounts and all their savings. Even if you could correct everything -- and that's a big if -- the process might take years and the intervening panic would be deafening. The amount of anger might even elicit a hot response.
To say nothing of more serious vulnerabilities. We really dodged a bullet on the pipeline ransomware.
I'm morbidly curious how bad of a "Cyber 9/11" we'll need before software starts being taken seriously as an engineering field in which practitioners have professional responsibility.