> It's not just money. It's paperwork, bureaucracy, and ultimately not effective. Practically, the only way to ensure safety is to take down the internet. http

> It's not just money. It's paperwork, bureaucracy, and ultimately not effective. Practically, the only way to ensure safety is to take down the internet. https://logfall.wordpress.com/all-or-nothing-fallacy/ https://logfall.wordpress.com/all-or-nothing-fallacy/ We can and should be making incremental improvements to technology. Continuing to use methods that are known to be faulty is gross negligence in the legal sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_negligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_negligence We do not see enough lawsuits around software negligence today because companies are under no obligation to release source code - there is no way to tell how or why or even whether software is defective. This was a major issue in the investigation of the Toyota unintended acceleration scandal. The investigation uncovered major, obvious code quality problems, ultimately concluded the fault was caused by software (something Toyota denied, and without the investigation, consumers never would have learned), and I hope becomes a precedent: http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-big-bowl-%E2%80%9Cspaghetti%E2%80%9D-code http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende... IMO if poor coding practice is gross negligence, it follows that failing to reveal the source code constitutes intent: poorly developed closed-source software is criminal negligence.