In my experience, as pretty much everyone else has stated, I have never been under pressure from pilots to just sign off defects or management for that matter. If there is a defect I and the crew work together so I get a full understanding of the defect, even this involves the crew bus waiting outside while I get a full Q&A session with the Captain (after it has been written in the tech log).
As people have said look at the security issue, especially as Capot pointed out with regards moving aircraft, that is an absolute farce, anybody involved with it knows how flawed it is.
