There are no guiding ethical standards, the group that pays the most to government gets washed of the liability. Even worse they hire lawyers to write contracts that no one reads that frees them from claims. All this goes on as serious people address the real problem of insecure systems with the belief that a real world demand is waiting.

We are all waiting to die from Avian Flu but it only becomes a reality when we contract the Flu, not when our neighbor contracts it.