[eli]

I would replace "human ineptitude" with "flawed system design that makes it very easy to make very bad mistakes"

[notabee]

"a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" - Douglas Adams

[dragonwriter]

But is the flawed system design here the automated system at AWS or the human-in-the-loop systems by which companies are providing admin access to IT resources, including AWS accounts?

[eli]

Probably both! But I would argue that below a certain size provisioning things by hand probably makes sense. A UI that makes it too easy to make a private thing public is never ok.

[dragonwriter]

Sure, but I don't think the current EC2 UI makes it too easy (and the S3 UI could only make it harder by not making public and cross account access possible at all.)

[snazz]

That's a valid way to categorize all memory errors in C.

[eli]

And I think we should absolutely hold that against C as a development language.