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Civil engineering mostly requires you to have a government-verified certificate and to work in the country your infrastructure will be deployed in. Software en

Civil engineering mostly requires you to have a government-verified certificate and to work in the country your infrastructure will be deployed in. Software engineering doesn't, and that makes criminal prosecutions that much harder. There's no path to making it happen. Financial liability for the company in question? Sure, that's probably doable. "Piercing the corporate veil" and punishing the executives who signed off on it? Harder but not impossible. Punishing the engineer who wrote that code, and who lives in a country with no such laws? Won't happen.

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> Civil engineering mostly requires you to have a government-verified certificate and to work in the country your infrastructure will be deployed in. It's a relatively small (and sharply defined) pool of people who can be called a civil engineer. Are we saying we want to segment software engineering (from coding) - the same way civil engineering is segmented from construction? Otherwise we're talking about placing specialist liability upon a non-specialist group. This seems unethical.