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The morgue manager at Harvard Medical School spent five years selling donated body parts online. The Cornell president just backed his Cadillac into a student asking him a question in a parking lot. This isn't high-trust culture. It's people who stopped believing anyone was watching.

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> It's people who stopped believing anyone was watching.

Which, in the era of social media, video surveillance, smartphones and dashcams, is crazy. Once you leave your home, you have to assume everything you do is recorded and might end up online or in court.

These people don't operated under that assumption because they run the systems. They don't care if it's recorded because the system will never make a big deal out of it. Ain't no different than a cop driving drunk because his coworkers won't prosecute him.

And with IoT, assume everything in your house is also being recorded.

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