> "Your account is disabled due to spamming." https://i.imgur.com/G2ZCkcE.jpg (in traditional Chinese)
Fortunately, most services in the university do not depend on G Suite. They depend on a unversity account (@ntu.edu.tw).
That kind of thing isn't good for security - an evil employee could use it for bad things.
Instead, all accounts get the same permissions, except disabled accounts (and in some cases blacklists for certain features, but these are avoided because maintainance of the list is a burden).
There is no technical reason why I should lose access to my documents if I happen to have abused some other Google service. There is just lack of will on Google's part.
My understanding is Google is a bit less likely to go full ban and just lock you out with no recourse with G Suite than regular services.
It's a good thing to shut down early this type of spam, else other providers might start blocking *.tw domains and it will take longer for them to get unblocked.
If the university has compromised credentials and allows third party mail clients to access without 2FA/unique codes enabled, then they’ve opened themselves up to being spammers.
I think the main problem with Google (and perhaps part of the reason why Google is great in the first place) is that Google relies too heavily on algo solutions and when the algo makes a mistake, you cannot get to a real person for support
Additionaly, Google Workplace (or whatever it's called next week) is particularly unsuited for enterprise because even when you do get a hold of someone, they aren't willing or able to provide enterprise level support.
For example, we were getting a lot of spearphishing, so we wanted to disable links in inbound email; can't do that. Then we were aquired and wanted to merge our account into our acquirer; can't do that either.
That something's called PRISM.