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I like the concept of this, but it seems like it'd be tough to validate that something was actually illegal from the individual actor's level. For instance, if
by gameman144 6y ago
I like the concept of this, but it seems like it'd be tough to validate that something was actually illegal from the individual actor's level. For instance, if management made clear that the hack here was illegal, the individual person doing the typing is just as culpable. It seems like it'd be very easy to mask that from above, however (e.g. telling a junior developer that there was a contract with Songkick and they needed to just do a database dump).
- rectang 6y ago> I like the concept of this, but it seems like it'd be tough to validate that something was actually illegal from the individual actor's level. By design. The corporate structure of plausible deniability protects executives, and ultimately shareholders, when lower level actors are subtly "encouraged" to commit criminal behavior which advantages the company — and then cut loose if they get caught. The incentives provide a strong force ensuring corporate criminality in the aggregate which completely overwhelms the weak force discouraging it at the individual level.
- saghm 6y agoOkay, so whoever lied about there being a contract (and anyone who authorizatied the lie) should be culpable.
- canofbars 6y agoI guess the problem is the higher ups know not to put any of this on record and the new person doesn't know that they should be recording this info so when it gets investigated its all "I never told him to do that".