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		schwap on April 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Stree... > Or coding software for medical machines. I don't believe anybody was arrested for the Therac-25[1] accidents. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

AnimalMuppet on April 23, 2015 [–]

I know of people who have been arrested. They were upper management, though, not engineers. They tried to ignore the FDA, and they got walked out in handcuffs. (This was not in relation to Therac-25.)

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