[abdullahkhalids]

In practice, engineers are not sent to jail only if the bridge they designed falls. They are sent to jail or punished otherwise if it is shown in a court or similar investigative process that they intentionally or unintentionally failed to follow standards or reasonable foreseeable precautions.

The same can very easily and must exist for software engineers. Some body comes up with a set of safety and security standards, and all the licensed engineers ensure the software under their wing conforms to those standards.

Software engineers will accept this responsibility when eventually governments pass laws regarding this, as they have done for other professions. It just takes time.