access-control-defaults-favor-availability-over-security

Status: IN

Access control implementations default toward permissiveness: S3 allows requests when no policy exists (opposite of AWS IAM's default-deny), and Google Drive short-circuits the full permission inheritance walk for owners — both reduce access-denied friction at the cost of security strictness.

Justifications

Both storage systems optimize for "access works by default" rather than "access requires explicit grant"

Depends on (SL): s3-policy-default-allow, gdrive-owner-bypasses-permission

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