Executive 101: Blame the techies. The moment I heard about this event, I knew that it was only a matter of time before the offending company executives would

Executive 101: Blame the techies. The moment I heard about this event, I knew that it was only a matter of time before the offending company executives would be blaming the developers. Interesting that their particular path forward is blaming malicious third party developers because the next thing that happens is someone interviews their devs and finds out that they in fact are the people who put this in. At the behest of middle management who behested at the behest of upper management. My prediction is that we'll soon be hearing about how upper management would never have told a developer or middle manager to program this in and it's the lower level guys who have gone rogue which is why they blamed cybercriminals. A lot of philosophy and poetics go into software engineering ethics that I find uncompelling at best. However, the pair of "why would you want to injure someone you don't even know" and "you will be the one blamed" feels to me to cover 95% of what software ethics claims to.