I find this characterization offensive. Who is to judge if the defined benefit pension if a primary school teacher or fireman, for example, is bloated? It's part of the negotiated pay package, nothing more or less.
I think I may have heard of a similar problem in a different field, computational thermodynamics. Solutions to a set of equations may be real or complex. The nonlinear solvers worked with real numbers exclusively and from time to time would not converge to any solution. Apparently if one used a solver that worked with complex numbers, the solver would reach a solution in real space more often than exclusively real solvers. Of course solving was much more expensive. Your explanation seems to fit here too
As someone who knows very little about security, this is really interesting, thanks! A question though: how would one know if there has been a breach? These examples look relatively easy to detect, but I guess there would be more complex cases?
I believe that in Canada, and certainly in Alberta, the titles are very much controlled. The regulatory group APEGA has a Professional Engineer designation for software engineers as well