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Agreed. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" basically means "Always make sure your malicious act can be adequately expl
by rurounijones 6y ago
Agreed. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" basically means
"Always make sure your malicious act can be adequately explained by stupidity if you get caught"
- tialaramex 6y agoHere's a clever technique from the Web PKI: Stop blaming people. You don't need to care whether people are malevolent or incompetent, you can assume incompetence just fine. Intent only matters for blame, so, don't use blame. I don't actually care whether the board at Symantec were deliberately turning a blind eye to forbidden practices and then get caught or they were too incompetent to exercise effective oversight and had no idea there was a problem, we can't trust them in either case.
- rurounijones 6y agoApart from in the legal system, which is supposedly where we go to sort things like this out and discourage others from doing the same thing, intent has a massive impact ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea ) on the penalties you can levy to discourage said behaviour.