[xyzzy123]

The flip side of "quality first" / stop the line is getting killed in market by a worse but faster or cheaper solution. You are locked in game theory with your regulators (if you have any) and your competitors.

It's disappointing (and career limiting) to do the "right" engineering and lose because you didn't correctly gauge the risk tolerance of the market.

I don't think there's any one answer for this.

My observation is that people will pay a premium for demonstrable physical safety features but privacy & security in software do not win markets.

[jacquesm]

This is mostly true but for things like medical devices, aerospace, industrial control and so on any corner cutting should be allowed.

I'm pretty sure that Philips right now has some thoughts on this as does Medtronic. Those two should have never happened and personally I'm all for liability of executives in such cases.

[jacquesm]

Should not be allowed, apologies. I always spot these errors only after the edit window has closed.