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I can't tell if you're serious or sarcastic, but there is such a thing as criminal negligence.

CrowdStrike knows that their software runs on computers that are in fricken hospitals and airports, they know that a mistake can potentially cause a human death. They also know how to properly test software, and they know how to do staggered releases.

Given what we know now, it seems pretty likely that to any reasonable person, the amount of risk they took when deploying changes to clients was in no way reasonable. People absolutely should go to jail for this.



Also corporate manslaughter, in some countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_manslaughter

This more or less originated with the unfortunately named MS Herald of Free Enterprise sinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise) - after that incident, regulators decided that maybe they didn't want enterprise quite as free as all that, and cracked down significantly on shipping operators (though the attempt to prosecute its execs for corporate manslaughter did fail).




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