Just Say No to IT Asshats

Why do we, as a society, put up with asshats who take short cuts and produce situations like this?:

'Good guys' show just how easy it is to steal ID
Teams of hackers surfed the Web at Seattle University yesterday, harvesting Social Security and credit card numbers like a farmer cutting wheat. In less than an hour, they found millions of names, birth dates and numbers -- cyberburglar tools for the crime of identity theft -- using just one, familiar Internet search engine: Google.
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Or this:

High Profile, Low Security
Big companies stumble with high profile security breaches that make your local WiFi coffee shop look secure.
By Matthew Tanase, SecurityFocus

I recommend taking the IDs of the application developers and their bosses up the line and selling them to the bad guys. Letting them deal with the consequences seems like a fitting punishment.