It also underscores an uncomfortable reality that software companies face few liabilities for major outages and cybersecurity incidents. The economic and legal penalties for such massive outages can be so minimal that companies are not motivated to make more fundamental changes.
"Until software companies have to pay a price for faulty products, we will be no safer tomorrow than we are today," he said.
This was a failure on so many levels that it would be funny if it didn't affect people in the entire world, because these parasites1 have managed to muscle themselves into Big Contracts thanks to Capitalism's Put-All-Your-Eggs-In-My-Basket-Because-It's-The-Biggest-It's-Fine-Actually bullshit.
I'm sure the managers who got comped lunches and other perks for signing a deal with this garbage "Security"/spying on your people company won't feel even a twinge of regret, because Not Their Problem, right, that's what they have people for, who aren't even paid a tenth of what they get2.
Anyway, tl;dr:
the company should be vaporised with an orbital strike and nobody in charge of it should ever be allowed to touch anything ever again.
Also, the bosses should lose All Their Money.
1: All the meanings of the word. They not only infest the business world, but they're also digging and injecting themselves into everything happening on a system in a way they really fucking shouldn't, making both sicker by just their presence
2: Or a thousandth, if it was outsourced, which it usually was, because that's money saved that can be spent on more fast cars for said managers! Everyone3 wins!
3: The managers and C-suite, who are the only people that exist in their reality