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Shit happens. Not that it was intentional. Anyway, who cares about software stuff, nobody dies. Unlike in engineering sector where a negligence could result i
by alice715 11y ago
Shit happens. Not that it was intentional.
Anyway, who cares about software stuff, nobody dies.
Unlike in engineering sector where a negligence could result in injury or death; those could be charged.
- therealmarv 11y agoThis reminds me of arguments some people use in the EU against net neutrality... they want fast lanes for Industry 4.0, online emergency and self driving cars. Incredible thoughts... I know.
- laumars 11y agoThere's a big difference between accidentally breaking something and doing it intentionally. I think some people get too caught up on blaming individuals for accidents. Which I think stems from the culture of litigation and offsetting unforeseen costs. While there obviously should be processes in place to prevent accidents from happening, gross negligence aside I do also think we should stop hunting down individuals to compensate our own greed.
- ryanlol 11y agoPeople are usually still held responsible when they accidentally break things, especially if it's because of their own gross negligence. I don't think anyone is blaming individuals here, in most countries businesses can face criminal charges.
- laumars 11y agoThere hasn't actually been any crime committed though. Unless you want to turn miscoding config files into an international crime - in which case every single person who works in IT would be a criminal since we all error at some point in our careers (usually frequently, to be honest). Granted the scale here is greater than your usual sysadmin would have access to, but the nature of the error isn't any different.
- ryanlol 11y agoYou're completely ignoring the potential monetary damages. A plenty of financial systems use the internet. I've also heard of a couple of other businesses utilizing the internet. "Shit happens" would've been applicable if this was solved in 5 minutes. Accidents like this are trivial to prevent with proper policies.
- pyvpx 11y agoI invite you read over the history of IRR and summaries of SO-BGP, S-BGP, PBGP, and MC-BGP.
- ryanlol 11y agoI'm very well aware, just because there's a history of people messing up doesn't mean the people that mess up shouldn't be held responsible.