[gnoway]

I'm not sure that's what is being argued here. I think it's more like if the govt compelled someone to write software to break someone's pacemaker or life support machine, then certify under their name that the software was safe to use.

Of course in this case the person is a corporation; if this defense works I wonder if there will be calls for renewed scrutiny of corporate personhood. This may have been discussed in the article, but I was unable to read very far because I have an ad blocker turned on.