In 1905 Upton Sinclair blew the whistle on an unsanitary meat packing industry in The Jungle.

 In 1964, Ralph Nader took on a negligent US automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed.

And as the century ends, journalist and computer expert Mark Minasi exposes the conspiracy of greed, complacency and arrogance that lies behind the shoddy standards that we've come to accept as "business as usual" in the software industry.

 What other industry ships their products untested, as one in seven software firms admit they do? What other industry ships a major product with thousands of known defects? Could any other industry could have failed to anticipate that the year 2000 would arrive?  Who else would be allow to waste the sixty five million U.S. work hours that American workers spent on hold at software support lines in 1996?  

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning ... and the response would be "we're sorry, here's a coupon for two more..." -- The Software Conspiracy

But faulty software hasn't only killed time, it has killed people, hundreds of them.  And yet the software industry thrives.