Is it the licensing that results in mostly safe engineering? I don't know, but I'd guess not -- it's probably more about liability. If a bridge or a balcony or

Is it the licensing that results in mostly safe engineering? I don't know, but I'd guess not -- it's probably more about liability. If a bridge or a balcony or a car or whatever fails, the responsible parties can be held legally liable. That's a strong incentive to get it right. If companies were similarly liable for security bugs, we'd see much more of a focus on that. And this is not an easy problem! It's sort of unsolved, in fact; almost all available software is riddled with security flaws. (And constantly being patched, if the company cares.) So getting this right for e.g. an online security camera, would probably necessitate a completely different approach to engineering. There's no way this would happen just by engineers being "diligent" imo w/o the backing of the company itself.