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by pompino 728 days ago
So software developers should be criminally liable for introducing security bugs?
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Management that knowingly chooses to ignore a major issue should be charged with criminal negligence. The creation of the bug is a common and difficult to avoid mistake. But once it has been found, choosing not to change it despite being warned if the consequences makes you responsible for those consequences.
So if send an email "Fix all your bugs or else bad stuff will happen", and if they don't fix all their bugs now I can put their devs in jail ?
Don't be obtuse. That is obviously not a genuine bug/vuln disclosure.
And you decide what is genuine?

Sorry, this whole thread is a fantasy of nerds thinking they can create a punitive policy for behavior they don't like. But there is no actual substantive framework under which any of these fantasies can come true.

knowingly? yes.
What standard do you suggest to prove intent?
How about the same as for fraud, manslaughter, conspiracy... But that's the judiciary's problem anyway. People who campaign for this higher accountability argue that it's such a drastic change from fines that it will change company cultures overnight.
A policy proposal needs a legal framework under which can actually can work. You can't just push that off as "that's the judiciary's problem".