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When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q




Yes! This video was what caused me to reconsider my use of Google services seriously.


I was wondering how to react if this happened to me while watching the video. If, like me, you use Google with your email on your own domain (eg. gsuite), you could, in an emergency, change your MX records to something non-google.


Worth noting that "In an emergency" also relies on your MX records' TTL being set to a low value


And the DNS not being managed by Google and the domain not being bought through Google.


Wow, thanks for the recommendation. Harrowing.


It's back up.


it's black!

:)


damn!!!




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