[Spooky23]

The vast majority of software shops don’t even consider insider threat in any meaningful way.

Imo it’s would be trivial to compromise many. Most companies have soft underbelly units like offshore maintenance engineering, tools teams and patching teams who don’t get a lot of meaningful oversight and can bypass many controls.

[saagarjha]

I mean, not even that. The cost to buy a software engineer and get them hired at the place you want to attack is really not that high. Once inside it’s generally possible to get things in (“the guild server was failing so I SSHed in and fixed it”).

[dboreham]

Whispers for decades that NSA does this.

[netsharc]

Or have them compromised? In the spy movies they'd send a female agent to seduce and then blackmail the married high ranking official, a scenario that bachelor software developers probably dream of.