Comment by brookst

I don't think the claim is that Google has introduced a totally novel vuln, just that they are a stable, trusted middleman who is failing to mitigate a common vuln where they can.

You don't abandon filing cabinets, but given that some percentage of startup failures are sudden and surprising and the people who could do something are unmotivated / unable to, it's not a best practice for a commercial landlord to put abandoned files on the street with a sign "free", files and all. Maybe they have a legal right to, but it's not how I would operate in that situation.