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besides google won't be exactly calling you because you made that comment here.
other commenters are right that you should not expose your personal number on internet regardless of it was you or not
Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is
Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.
edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details
edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details
What are IAM permissions?
"IAM" is basically the name for a specific model of doing it.
Unless something really crazy happened, this user is unlikely to be correct. Accounts are supposed to be firewalled/sandboxed in a way that you can't contagion across to someone else's let alone systemwide.
It's possible (some sweeping script on a powerful connection that smashes just the right things or some exploit to break the sandboxing), just probably not likely - especially unintentionally.
But crazier things have happened https://books.google.com/books?id=rRp7DkTegMEC&newbks=0&prin...
So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?
What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative. Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.:…
1- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ema...
Maybe it’s time to go outside?