Brings up a question: what is the chance of blaming some of this on an "innocent" coding error? Can you get jail for not writing unit tests, swallowing an exception, a type conversion you did not expect?
The perfect crime would be to add a natural looking bug in the code that can be exploited by someone else, and then we split the money!
> Every year, we will propose a challenge to coders to solve a simple data processing problem, but with covert malicious behavior. Examples include miscounting votes, shaving money from financial transactions, or leaking information to an eavesdropper. The main goal, however, is to write source code that easily passes visual inspection by other programmers.
I don't see you being jailed for your random GitHub project being sloppy. However, if your closed source software that you advertise as 100% safe and secure gets used by a chemotherapy clinic, and then it comes out to be downright sloppy after killing 20 patients you may be accused of fraud. Anyway, not a lawyer so take it with a grain of salt.