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I never said the hacker shouldn't be liable. I said he shouldn't be criminally liable.

By your logic, if the manufacturer puts out software that is responsible for a death, would you throw the software developer who wrote in jail? That's silly.

All this stuff is limited to civil liability.

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It really depends on what the developer did. If the developer knowingly removed all tests that weren't passing because the car, sometimes, did not recognize old ladies crossing the street, then this person should go to jail. This is evidently negligence.

Hmm, I see your point. But I don't know how you can draw a distinction between this and other forms of reckless endangerment. A manufacturer at least in principle isn't being reckless. But some random person that fancies themselves an elite hacker messing with things they definitely do not understand seems definitely reckless. And therefore criminal.

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