You could be right, but you have to consider where this accident occurred. I expect that most pilots have been trained, but that does not mean all have. Ethiopia is known to be a " ■■■■ hole" country.
I have a IT degree and software programming happens to be a specialty of mine.
Not to say that it couldnt possibly be malicious code, just that it not.
I could go into a long explanation of why, but the short version is, those that do malicious programming either do it for money in which case you dont get anywhere demanding money after killing first.
Or they do it for fun and the challenge. Cant possibly see someone spending god aweful amounts of time figuring out how to get such code into a secure codebase just to randomly kill people for fun.
The number of security protocols that would have to be circumvented for this to be an act of maliciousness behavior would be insanely high.
So to recap while no one at this point can say conclusively 100% it wasnt malicious code. Most anyone with even a modicum of rational thought wouldnt have ever entertained the idea that it would be such a thing.
A ■■■■■■■■ of money. Notwithstanding the lawsuits that are going to happen, the amount of resources they have to devote to figuring this out quickly and a fix will be 10s if not hundreds of millions, and that doesnt even consider how many sales of future units and cancels they will lose just from mistrust.
What do you think they would pay to not have to spend the time and money to have to identify the problem?
I don’t think it was malicious either, I just disagree with your reasoning a little bit. I think it was a maintenance error or distant #2 a design flaw.