Platform trust is eroding: OneDrive edition
Microsoft's announcement that OneDrive data now has an expiry date sparked immediate alarm. Commenters pointed to real organizational pain: shared SharePoint documents from former employees that underpin critical workflows will silently disappear. One commenter described losing photos permanently after being locked out of OneDrive without warning or explanation before the subscription ended.
This sits alongside a broader pattern of platform dependency risk. The data breach disclosure thread made a related point: companies have no business incentive to disclose breaches quickly, and users find out months or years later. The common thread is that storing anything important on a vendor's infrastructure means accepting that the vendor's incentives and yours will eventually diverge.
The supply chain security threads (config files that run code, npm-scan) reinforce the same anxiety from a different angle: the infrastructure you depend on can hurt you in ways you didn't anticipate, whether through data loss, delayed breach disclosure, or malicious package injection.
So what?
If your product or internal operations rely on OneDrive, SharePoint, or similar cloud storage for anything that needs to persist beyond an employee's tenure, you need a data governance policy now, not later. More broadly, any founder building on top of third-party storage should audit what happens to customer data when accounts lapse or get suspended.