Comment by toss1

Comment by toss1 4 days ago

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>> is highly speculative, is it not?

I'd say NOT.

Shutdown of a small company running out of funds is rarely fully orderly. Critical things may get taken care of, but everything is unlikely, as people have already left. Plus, with things like already-paid-in accounts, there's even an incentive to keep them open until the term expires, e.g., why not keep the prepaid ChatGPT API account live for execs and techs to use between jobs?

Just like wiping hard drives on EOL computers — everyone should do it every time, but people are always finding full HDDs and SSDs on eBay and Craigslist...

bpodgursky 4 days ago

Not just this, but execs and employees like to keep websites live for a while while they job-hunt (otherwise their resume has dead links). And ideally keep their name@startup.com email working. But to keep those running requires a long tail of "live" DNS and finance stuff you can't quite close out.

  • dylan604 4 days ago

    Wouldn't it be cheaper just to pay for the domain registration for an extended time like 10 years vs the 1 or 2 year options?

dylan604 4 days ago

also, there are lots of non-technical people running small businesses that use G services because that's all they know. They can barely operate them let alone be cognizant of things like this "exploit".