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This is completely false. TA account because I am not authorized to speak on this, but that’s not at all what happened.

nielsole 2y ago
I think the latest public information was that it was a VMware "private cloud", a set of VMs, in GCP which accidentally had an expiration date set. So no GCP projects/billing accounts were ever deleted. Is that accurate?
- antifa 2y ago
  What is an expiration date if not a scheduled deletion date? Is it a soft-deletion? It's clearly ambiguous to me, who has no previous knowledge of this event before a minute ago. "Google auto deletes account at expiration date" seems to be a reasonable interpretation of what's been presented to me so far.
smitty1e 2y ago
We should always maintain a healthy skepticism in either direction, and maybe supporting that is your purpose, but: why should your throwaway account be believed?
- deleted 2y ago
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tjpnz 2y ago
Well go on then, tell us more.
paulgb 2y ago
The official statement from google: “During the initial deployment of a Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Private Cloud for the customer using an internal tool, there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer’s GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period.” https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail... Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? What would they possibly gain from that?
- re-thc 2y ago
  > Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? The original news article says Google deleted the account. As per your quote and official statement - no account has been deleted. So that news article is completely false. Point proven.
  - Dylan16807 2y ago
    The difference between deleting an account and deleting everything in the account is semantics. Or did I get poe's lawed?

I think the latest public information was that it was a VMware "private cloud", a set of VMs, in GCP which accidentally had an expiration date set. So no GCP projects/billing accounts were ever deleted. Is that accurate?

antifa 2y ago
What is an expiration date if not a scheduled deletion date? Is it a soft-deletion? It's clearly ambiguous to me, who has no previous knowledge of this event before a minute ago. "Google auto deletes account at expiration date" seems to be a reasonable interpretation of what's been presented to me so far.

smitty1e 2y ago

We should always maintain a healthy skepticism in either direction, and maybe supporting that is your purpose, but: why should your throwaway account be believed?

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tjpnz 2y ago

Well go on then, tell us more.

paulgb 2y ago

The official statement from google: “During the initial deployment of a Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Private Cloud for the customer using an internal tool, there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer’s GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period.” https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail... Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? What would they possibly gain from that?

re-thc 2y ago
> Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? The original news article says Google deleted the account. As per your quote and official statement - no account has been deleted. So that news article is completely false. Point proven.
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  The difference between deleting an account and deleting everything in the account is semantics. Or did I get poe's lawed?