@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @skewray@mathstodon.xyz We would not apply that forgiving logic to a neurosurgeon busting our skull open, never mind the fact that medicine predates IT by millennia and neurosurgery is far more specialised and far more difficult than coding. The typical age of board-certified neurosurgeons is early to mid 30s. A medical malpractice of a neurosurgeon may kill at most one person. If IT had become almost as deep as neurosurgery, and given the fact that IT failures have the potential to kill hundreds (avionics system failure), starve hundreds of thousands (power grid failure), or impoverish millions of investors (trading network failure), perhaps IT practitioners should be licensed and regulated—just like neurosurgeons.