>... "the mechanisms you add to prevent failures are themselves a major cause of failure". When those failure-prevention mechanisms are bolt-on solutions that

>... "the mechanisms you add to prevent failures are themselves a major cause of failure". When those failure-prevention mechanisms are bolt-on solutions that make a complex system even more complex, perhaps that's not surprising. In this case, for example, the complex system needed to be simplified, by removing the explosives. But instead it was made more complex.