The problem with programmers is rather incompetence than obeying unethical instructions. It’s not a business manager who tells a developper to concatenate a SQL

The problem with programmers is rather incompetence than obeying unethical instructions. It’s not a business manager who tells a developper to concatenate a SQL string rather than use a parametrised query, to leave a datastore wide open rather than setting up a permissioning, to store passwords unencrypted or not validate inputs from the client. Yeah, there is a handful of cases where software developers have been given bad instructions from their management, and perhaps Boeing is one of them. But the real problem is developers being unaware of the most basic good practices.