This is the part that bugs me about our profession being called "engineers". Every goddamn non-CS engineer I know thinks *deeply* about consequences, and ethics, failure modes, etc. We've outsourced it to a subgroup of our profession. (And we don't always respect them, either)
And in CS/SE the consequences can be wide-ranging, because there is no barrier to entry. Bits can be copied, anyone can write code. What if you could download the Bomb? Some sysadmins exposed their memcached servers and now anyone can send a Tbps DDoS from their basement.
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These are all impressive things, but really, minor blips when it comes to the scale what can go wrong. And the really big mess-ups require large teams, lots of money, and lots of hardware. Because bits can be copied, but business with large scale reach can't.
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