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560 points bearsyankees | 1 comments | 12 May 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

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12_throw_away ◴[12 May 25 17:54 UTC] No.43965757[source]▶

Hot take: just like real engineers, there should be a Software Engineer licensing exam that's legally required before you can handle PII ... because this is the alternative.

Before I was allowed to hand out juice cups at my kids' preschool, I had to do a 2 hour food safety course and was subject to periodic inspections. That is infinity% more oversight than I received when storing highly sensitive information for ~10^5 users.

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1. gwbas1c ◴[12 May 25 21:41 UTC] No.43967732[source]▶

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Your comment should be the top post in this thread. Unfortunately, there is a group of HN readers who downvote all comments that suggest we (software developers) should be licensed, even though plenty of other fields require it.

I think we'll need to start pushing on lawmakers.

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