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Eh, I'm not even sure why the developer would ever be held accountable for developing things as required. It's not like a machinist is ever held responsible for
by lesuorac 2y ago
Eh, I'm not even sure why the developer would ever be held accountable for developing things as required. It's not like a machinist is ever held responsible for a firearm death or a barrel maker is held responsible for an alcohol death.
Making tools is just not a liable line of work. Using the tools or selling the tools historically is. _Brewers_ not barrel makers have been sued for alcohol deaths.
However, if you were to add a backdoor to some software then yeah that's just general crime.
- otterley 2y ago> Making tools is just not a liable line of work. The law says otherwise. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/products_liability https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/products_liability
- lesuorac 2y agoIf I sell you a hammer and the hammer breaks sure I'm liable. If I sell you a hammer and you hammer in somebody's head, I'm not liable. The second scenario is what we're actually talking about for developers. If I write VoIP code and you use it to commit ransomware; nobody is taking a developer to court over it. At best corporate is going to court. Even in the first scenario, you can't sue the individual worker that produced the hammer. You're limited to getting a refund or replacement of the hammer from corporate.