> This leads to a normalization of inexplicability.

It’s also tightly connected to a normalization of lack of accountability.

> This isn't "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" -- you still have to do the hard part.

This is probably losing the younger portion of the audience by now. ;)

The people accountable are those hosting & writing the algorithms, e.g. Therac-25.