Shutting down complete access instead of holding back a few cookies is a bit of a stretch as well. If you must fail, please fail-open then. And if you decide

Shutting down complete access instead of holding back a few cookies is a bit of a stretch as well. If you must fail, please fail-open then. And if you decide to fail-close, don’t lie: We’re unimportant to you so you decided to fail-close, and you’re not “working” on anything. You think it’s ok and it can be left like this.