First hand account of the programmer who destroyed America

Check out this amazing first-hand account of the programmer who’s work helped facilitate the financial crises we are in now:

I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty. I do, somewhat, and it nags at me. When I put it out of mind, it inevitably resurfaces, like a shipwreck at low tide. It’s been eight years since I compiled a program, but the last one lived on, becoming the industry standard that seeded itself into every investment bank in the world.

I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds.

How Michael Osinski Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street — New York Magazine.