Yeahhhh. Honestly, "business-focused" decisions like cost-center accounting, and various schemes to save money, are really how we got into this mess. A lot of

Yeahhhh. Honestly, "business-focused" decisions like cost-center accounting, and various schemes to save money, are really how we got into this mess. A lot of our appalling lack of computer security basically comes from the equivalent of a hospital administration refusing to allow surgeons the time to wash their hands. As "reductio ad absurdum" of a metaphor as that seems, that was actually the huge culture battle that got fought when germ theory came out - tons of medical practices refused to waste time on such "silliness". Over time it became a cultural norm, and then became a protected practice through professional guilds, and through law, so that even if hospital administrators push for surgeons to hurry up and fit more patients into a day (and they do), their prerogative to take their time and do it right is institutionally protected. We don't have anything like that in programming.