Yeah, that's some nice rhetoric, but...I guarantee that, right now, some part of your personal software stack has a security vulnerability. If you write software for a living, some piece of software you maintain has a critical vulnerability.
Do you want to be held personally responsible when they're breached? If your wireless access point is hacked because you waited too long to update it, and it is used to launch DoS attacks, do you want to be liable? Do you want to be held personally responsible when you click on the just-good-enough phishing attack in your corporate inbox?
If not, then consider why you'd ask the same thing from a corporation of tens of thousands of people.
No, I don't. I don't want anyone to be held personally responsible.
> consider why you'd ask the same thing from a corporation
I'm not asking the same from companies. I don't consider putting liability on a company the same as putting liability on an individual, and neither do our laws. Companies may pay liabilities out of profits, companies may have to sell assets, companies may go out of business and people lose their jobs. None of that is the same as someone being personally liable.
> If your wireless access point is hacked because you waited too long to update it, and it is used to launch DoS attacks, do you want to be liable? Do you want to be held personally responsible when you click on the just-good-enough phishing attack in your corporate inbox?
This is a strawman, corporations are suppose to have a process in place to make sure stuff is up to date. You don’t jail like a random rank and file guy for a huge breach.
Do you want to be held personally responsible when they're breached? If your wireless access point is hacked because you waited too long to update it, and it is used to launch DoS attacks, do you want to be liable? Do you want to be held personally responsible when you click on the just-good-enough phishing attack in your corporate inbox?
If not, then consider why you'd ask the same thing from a corporation of tens of thousands of people.