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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by morelisp on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:51AM (#33983434)
> Software engineers are not lawyers and they are bad at interpreting laws.

Right, so if something seems sketchy ("please ignore these specific deductions when calculating our holdings") , get a lawyer - or CEO or CFO or whatever - to say in writing that it's fine.

And if something seems actually illegal ("just run the blood test results out-of-spec and report them anyway") just don't do it. Nothing absolves you of some things.

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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by roenxi on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:02AM (#34028278)
Sure. But if the engineer doesn't think it is sketchy enough to seek out a lawyer, why would they suddenly be liable for issues where they are obviously ignorant, and never expected to be competent?
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