Evil Tech: How Devs Became Villains
summary
Engineers add a Python database migration that creates an allow_negative boolean and one account (Alameda) is set true, letting that account withdraw up to 64 billion — evidence used in the FTX fraud case. Legal exposure: CTO faces 75 years and engineering director 50 years in some filings. Research shows only a tiny fraction of software engineering papers address ethics, and privacy is often treated as security = freedom mismatch across disciplines.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome
- 6:17Who is the villain
- 8:01FTX scandal
- 12:41Developers as villains
- 15:08Culture and villainy
- 17:19Ethics research
- 20:10Privacy versus freedom
- 22:21Closing remarks
- 22:44Q&A
- 26:19Morality university module
- 28:35Why this topic
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