Comment by jrm4

Sure. And we are well past the time in which we need to develop real legal action and/or policy -- with consequences against this sort of thing.

We have an established legal framework to do this. It's called "tort law," and we need to learn how to point it at people who negligently or maliciously create and or mess with software.

What makes it difficult, of course, is that not only should it be pointed at jerk researchers, but anyone who works on software, provably knows the harm their actions can or do cause, and does it anyway. This describes "black hat hackers," but also quite a few "establishment" sources of software production.