> I imagine once they knew what the issue was, they would have been able to fix it as i'm pretty sure that service doesn't need to be authorised by itself to be

> I imagine once they knew what the issue was, they would have been able to fix it as i'm pretty sure that service doesn't need to be authorised by itself to be configured ;) You'd be surprised at the circular dependencies that creep up at Google scale... (I used to work there and we had last resort secure access mechanisms, but I wouldn't be surprised if the normal front door wound up shut pretty hard for this one)