> modern software design processes essentially designed to stop bad stuff like this happening ... what happens when you get caught? you lose your job, get black

> modern software design processes essentially designed to stop bad stuff like this happening ... what happens when you get caught? you lose your job, get blacklisted in the industry, after all you can't tell them the govt made you do it (on your CV/resume trying to explain why you were fired) I often wonder about this in regards to those "signed" orders in the USA, and it seems now Australia is similar. And I wonder if we need more people going public in a very big way. i.e. Jim Smith has to put out a press release that says "I work for company X and the Government of Y country asked me to do xyz, and I refused." Go very, very public with it, putting out press releases, etc. etc. Obviously there are laws against that, and Jim Smith is risking a lot, but I can't imagine how things will get better until people on the front lines do stuff like this.