[SystemSafety] Personal and corporate liabilities as a consequence of safety, security and other mistakes of similar importance

[Martyn Thomas]

You might consider Cambridge Professor Ross Anderson's papers on
/Security Economics/ relevant and technically respectable. He uses the
tools of classical economics to explain the bad decisions taken by
software developers. His blog https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
focuses mainly on topical security and privacy issues but it also
contains some of the best-informed and most entertaining rants about
technical matters that you will find anywhere.

Martyn


On 09/10/2018 08:47, Olwen Morgan wrote:
>
> All,
>
>
> On 08/10/18 20:07, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>> There is virtually no "technically respectable" literature on how the
>> phenomenology of programs
>> relates to the cultural aspects of programming.
>>
>
> There is a *DESPERATE* need for research in this area. Having spent my
> entire working life as a software engineer, I am both astonished and
> dismayed that there has been no serious effort to explain why working
> practices are so arrantly irrational. And before anyone says there's
> no evidence of such irrationality, I'd point out that in most
> workplaces I've seen, you couldn't even get repeatable measurements on
> whence to produce a sound evidence-based assessment of the degree of
> rationality of working methods.
>
> It's what makes me glad that I'm now semi-retired and can pick and
> choose what work I take on.
>
>
> regards,
> O
>
>
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