The federal government is merely experiencing what everyone else does: The IT industry has very low standards: Look at the vast amount of fraud, theft, slander

The federal government is merely experiencing what everyone else does: The IT industry has very low standards: Look at the vast amount of fraud, theft, slander, cons, mis/disinformation, etc. on the Internet, not to mention consumers and small businesses getting run over by legal corporate behavior such as not providing customer service, locking accounts, holding money, holding data, surveillance and selling data, etc. It's been said before, but IT needs professional standards that provide actual, real-life security, privacy, etc., just like professional standards for building developers provide actual, safe buildings - imagine a fraud equivalent to cryptocurrency in building architecture and engineering; imagine an SBF. SBF was celebrated and still is by some. Lawyers have professional standards, doctors, accountants, scientists, engineers in most fields, ... the list goes on in every field of human endeavor but IT. And with standards comes liability. Microsoft shouldn't be able to just say, 'sorry about those hackers'.