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The sheer scale is incomparable. Comparing a doctor's mistake during a surgery doesn't quite compare to losing the data of 147 million. "Critical systems" deve
by katzgrau 9y ago
The sheer scale is incomparable. Comparing a doctor's mistake during a surgery doesn't quite compare to losing the data of 147 million.
"Critical systems" developers would need astronomically expensive insurance to even exist, and therefore prohibitively high salaries.
I personally believe there should be some measure of a corporate death penalty to emphasize the responsibility involved though.
- freeone3000 9y agoIf the risk to such a thing failing is so large, this seems a point against your argument. We MUST be able to reduce the risk of such systems failing, and do so provably. If we cannot reduce the cost, we must reduce the risk, such that the calculation makes the system affordable again.
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- solomatov 9y ago>The sheer scale is incomparable. Comparing a doctor's mistake during a surgery doesn't quite compare to losing the data of 147 million. Then, companies shouldn't have such a high concentration of risks in one place. The problem wouldn't be such a disaster if just SSN wasn't enough to get a loan. For example, if we had a password in addition to SSN (stored in a hashed form), the problem would be much less severe.