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A comment on Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub. Parent comment

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by Veen on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:36PM (#19811071)
You can be sent to jail for a mistake if it was caused by negligence.
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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by penagwin on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:12PM (#19811523)
Well yeah obviously. The question is whether an individual should go to jail because of negligence.

Obviously, there is a real "It depends". Hit and kill an individual with your car because you were distracted? That could mean jail. Accidentally pushed code to the wrong repo? Should that mean jail time?

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