Ah, but you fail to account for Google's incredible knack for building tools designed to do things at scale. Or put AI in things that don't need it.

The possibility Google will either manage to unleash a malicious AI on their infrastructure and/or develop a way to destroy a lot of data at scale quite efficiently or some combination of the two is far from zero.

Bear in mind, this "Little Oops" should also have been impossible: https://www.techspot.com/news/103207-google-reveals-how-blan...

Delete a decryption key. Good luck! I'll see you at the end of time.

Break your control plane, and you can't stop the propagation of poison.

Propagate the wrong trust bundle... everywhere.

Also, it's not about the delete command. It's about the automatic cleanup following behind it that shreds everything, or repurposes the storage.

Google accidentally deleted customer location history data from customer devices (after intentionally deleting it from Google servers) just last year.

If didn't back it up yourself, it is gone forever.

Yes.

The idea that all customer data will be deleted is far fetched, but I feel like there have been some massive incidents. Crowdstrike comes to mind, but I feel its entirely possible that Apple/Google/etc could push out some kind of config update which bricks phones in a way they are unable to download another update to fix them.

Though I'm sure the major players are all over this risk which is why it hasn't happened.