A software change allowed FTX to use client money

Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by nradov on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:23PM (#33979646)

That's a nice little fantasy. In the real world, competent developers with that level of domain knowledge mostly don't exist at any price. In the healthcare field where I work, not many developers have ever gone to medical school.

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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by liketochill on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:49AM (#33981063)

would you program the software to allow your friend to obtain drugs from the hospital without deducting it from inventory so nobody would notice?

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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by DangitBobby on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:44AM (#33984103)

Different scenarios are different.

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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by DontchaKnowit on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:56PM (#33991177)

But not that different.

You're telling me a software engineer could make a change that allowed spending money a company could not legally spend and he had no idea about it? Come on. That is preposterous. At any respectable company alarm bells would be going off everywhere and fingers would all start pointing to that change. Theres virtually 0 chance that there was not intent.

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