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Re:Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) by walrus01 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @02:22PM (#17740877)
I am personally more concerned with software engineers and network engineers aiding and abetting the imprisonment, torture and execution of people by repressive regimes, by enabling surveillance technology and fucking with internet traffic analysis. Way more people are going to be hurt in the near term by that than by therac-25 type mistakes.

For example if you're a Chinese network engineer, and you can avoid it, don't take a job setting up tracking and database of Uyghur people. That is an ethical issue just as important as the therac-25 type problem.

Re:Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) by ysleepy on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:42PM (#17741188)
You don't have to look that far. The ICE detaining children and violating them are already crimes against humanity. I bet there are IT people working for that agency.

They killed at least one child and are drugging them against their will, while they are forcibly taken from their parents and held in worse conditions than terrorists.