> Is there any other profession were the professional, doing something wrong, would be called the victim? Would an engineer, having made an error when doing structural engineering calculations, be called a victim if the software used was too complex? Or a physician who overlooked adverse affects written in fine print? Or the electrician making errors when fixing things in a house with old wiring?

I don't understand the relevance of this to my original question.

> Of course the behavior of Docker is really problematic in this case, and ditto for MongoDB not having auth active per default. But both applications were consciously chosen by Newsblur.

Or this, for that matter

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So that you have it, my original ask was: But what's the end user a victim of in this case? Other than a brief lack of availability?