> "I'm surprised there was no whistleblower who came forward with evidence of poor software quality, etc." A lot of people know that the takedown of Enron was

> "I'm surprised there was no whistleblower who came forward with evidence of poor software quality, etc." A lot of people know that the takedown of Enron was precipitated or at least in some way aided by a whistleblower, but what a lot of people don't know is that the whistleblower went to the CEO, not the government, and went back to work at Enron for a few more months after confronting the CEO and receiving assurances that he'd look into the matter. The Enron whistleblower, whom some have argued wasn't really a whistleblower at all, seems to have been primarily concerned with losing her job rather than taking down the corporation for being a fraud. So you've got a company with tens of thousands of people, probably hundreds of whom might have seen or heard something wrong, yet despite that the sole whistleblower was hardly a whistleblower at all. The incidence rate of whistleblowing has historically been very low. It seems that few people riding gravy trains make an earnest attempt to derail them.