The police should pursue it cases like this, and arrest the decision maker in the organization that caused this to happen. If it’s been happening repeatedly, the person’s sentence should be increased accordingly.
The police should pursue it cases like this, and arrest the decision maker in the organization that caused this to happen. If it’s been happening repeatedly, the person’s sentence should be increased accordingly.
If such crimes are already documented as crimes on the federal level, then it'd only require an executive order from the President to get the FBI to start tracking that particular crime down.
Which is why bad software can hurt people a lot.
The OP's point is easily generalizable to so many domains; anyone who has written enough commercial software has seen bugs like these, though perhaps not with as severe legal consequences.
I had a friend - who happened to be pretty well-versed AND interested in legal matters - who was sued by someone for some car accident. The thing was, the identification came from a license plate, and he lived hundreds of miles away and drove a completely different car.
He finally got in touch with the attorney - who didn't care - and made him care. Took time and effort. Would have cost a normal person a pretty penny.