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Comment on: Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Software engineers have a widely-shared belief that most software issues are far less severe than those found in civil engineering. Even a security breach — arguably the worst issue there is — rarely results in any meaningful consequences for those whose data has been breached.I don't think this belief is entirely justified, but as programmers, it's really hard to predict when our actions suddenly become life-threatening, so the belief persists.My college ethics professor told us a story where a few people died at some concert somewhere in South America, because a software developer at a data