On Fri, 2026-03-27 at 15:10 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 27/03/2026 à 13:26, Peter Duffy a écrit :
> > Please be clear that I'm in no way underestimating the scale of the
> > challenge of setting up such an organisation and reaching the point
> > where it was viable and fit for purpose. Colossal would be putting
> > it
> > mildly, and catering for all requirements and opinions would make
> > squaring the circle look trivial by comparison. But I do believe
> > that
> > it should be attempted.
>
>      There is a category of programmers who make a lot of money: the
> ones who make a job of stealing and saling private data out of the
> accounts which all companies and administrations force customers and
> citizen to create. They can do so because the Internet is inherently
> unsafe, and there is no way to secure it, and, in addition, the site
> makers and admins are negligent. Specially the providers of ready-
> made
> sites -- eg Google -- do not care at all of securing private data
> because they are never sued, nor the companies which pay them for it.
> There should be a value for private data and, when it is stealed, the
> holders should be sued. A lot of money is stealed, and people even
> hijacked or killed after their private data has been compromised.
>
> --     Didier
>

I'm sure that is correct. I'm also sure that there are a lot of shyster
lawyers, quack doctors and cook-the-books accountants who make vast
amounts of money. But at least there is a chance - however small - of
reporting them to the organisations which provide (or should be
providing) their accreditation, and getting them banned from
practising. One basic problem is that the only reason that the
existence of IT people comes into the public domain is in the context
of lurid and often inaccurate stories about hacking and IT-related
disasters. So they tend to get regarded as scum. That needs to change!
IT workers need to be regarded as contributors and benefactors to
society - not destroyers of it.

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