Comment by SoftTalker

Katherine Archuleta and Donna Seymour aren't writing code or administering online systems. I'm sure their organizations have security policies and standards, why not put the devs and sysadmins in prison if they didn't follow them?

I think that what we're seeing is evidence that humans, in general, are not capable of securely delivering the kinds of online services that they are trying to deliver. It's just too complicated, and while defenses have to be perfect, attacks only have to work occasionally to be worth doing.

Edit: not that we shouldn't expect best efforts, and financial liability for organizational failures. Prison maybe for clear proven negligence or intentional sabotage, but for mistakes? Nobody will write software anymore. When is the last time you wrote even a screenful of code without a mistake?