In some ways this is worse than writing code for something like the Therac-25: there are hostile people out there who will actively try to destroy you. If they

In some ways this is worse than writing code for something like the Therac-25: there are hostile people out there who will actively try to destroy you. If they can cause you $10 million in damages to get $10,000 for themselves they will consider that a good day. This was the guy who wrote his own SSH server (in PHP, FWIW) and put it into production, right? This whole thing is a disaster waiting to happen.