Reply to post: Re: You call them "policies" I call they default settings.

Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets)

Michael Hoffmann Silver badge
Facepalm

Re: You call them "policies" I call they default settings.

It *is* default!

However, if you are delegating control over a bucket within an account, you end up with some herp-derp for whom "IAM 101" might as well have been in Minoan Linear A who, after 2 failed attempts at secure access, just sets public on their bucket.

This is a ... I believe in the UK the favourite term is now "backstop"?

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