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by soerxpso 180 days ago
That's because the unannounced firedrills don't involve setting the building on fire. A "drill" equivalent would be if we all pretended the internet is down sometimes, and in some cases that still might be impossible to do without negative consequences.
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Fire drills do involve denying access, though. We wouldn't need to bomb the datacenters but we would need to make them inaccessible.