[godelski]

  > you'd think there would be some additional safety checks they could add that would at least let it fail with an error message instead of actual data loss.

My guess is that these would exist, and do.

I think you've just made an assumption about a bug that was reported 17 years ago. Assuming nothing has been done since. It looks like they can't reproduce it, *making it impossible to mark as fixed* even if it was. But I wouldn't assume nothing was done.

Also remember that Gmail, Outlook, and others are in play here. They also maintain trashed items for 30 days, making it easy to recover. As the provider, they shouldn't make it easy to mass delete things either, right? TB is just the interface, frankly, I'm not sure I know how to permanently delete emails with it. I'm not sure I can. But the interaction here should result in multiple lines of defense.

[Nition]

It's not just one report from 17 years ago, it's 194 comments with the most recent one from nine months ago. It doesn't seem like mitigation steps have been implemented.