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CoastalCodertoday at 10:49 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm guessing it ultimately comes down to the legal / financial / career incentives.

My impression is that the market currently rewards visible software functionality with little concern for invisible risk.

If we flipped the script, and investors were personally, criminally, and civilly liable for computer breaches, I imagine this problem would disappear almost overnight.


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bandramitoday at 12:57 PM

I'm at a defense contractor so the whole scene is alien to me. I don't really even get the desire to produce code more quickly since for us client verification and approval is always the slow part. Producing software more quickly would just make that problem worse.

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