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I think this is one of the areas where software being treated as "not real engineering" caused some trouble. I went to school for electrical engineering and in my senior year they really pushed the idea of engineering ethics [1] and the personal responsibilities we had to whistle-blow.

There is this Order of the Engineer [2] that has their own oath akin to the Hippocratic Oath. I went down the software path so I never really looked into it, but my professors were very in favor of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_ethics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer



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