fail-safe-vs-fail-secure
Use when designing a component that loads ACLs, certificates, or policies at runtime and must decide what happens when that load fails: fail open (fail-safe, availability) or fail closed (fail-secure, confidentiality). Not for debugging an existing failure.
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