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by Buttons840 629 days ago
Make a law protecting whistleblowers. Include criminal penalties for the worst cases.

What executive is going to brush something under the rug when they know their employees can whistle blow and if so, the executive will go to jail.

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Executives can already go to jail for not reporting vulnerabilities. The risk of personal criminal liability is one of the reasons people choose not to move into the Director role, in big tech security careers.
They mostly just avoid the countries where they could get arrested in my experience.
Like the USA?