Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso...
by throwaway8581 on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:45PM
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It’s not the software makers who are committing the crimes. It’s the people abdicating responsibility to software. You can’t wipe your hands of releasing a prisoner on schedule by delegation that to software. The software can help you with your task, but if it’s brought to your attention that there’s a mistake, your failure to promptly fix it is on you.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso...
by Tepix on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:58PM
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It's both. Look at the amount of unnecessary waste created by the abysmal Android update policy.
Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso...
by throwaway8581 on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:21PM
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Most of the time, liability for defective software should be civil liability in tort or contract. In most cases where something bad has occurred involving software, it’s going to be hard for the developers of the software to have the sort of mental state and unattenuated causal connection with the occurred harm that we typically require for criminal liability for reckless conduct.
I’m not saying it can’t happen, but it would be very unusual circumstances, especially since there’s usually an operator of the software sitting between the developer and the person harmed by the software.