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I think global kill switches are just an last resort machanism, to bypass identified faulty subsystems. Even if there is a risk with it, in this instance the risk was zero, because CF was dead already. This wont change the blast radius, but it's duration and proliferation.

In reference to fault isolation boundaries: I am not familiar with their CI/CD, in theory the error could have been caught/prevented there, but that comes with a lot of depends or it's tricky. But it looks like they didn't go the extra mile to care about safety sensitive areas. So euphemistic speaking, they are now recalibrating balance of safety measures.





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