So, after reading the slow but steady trickle of articles about facebook photos living forever on the CDN after being removed from the main site's database, I got to thinking - what's to stop people from uploading something to facebook, say an embarrassing photo of some politician, and then promptly deleting it, but saving the direct URL? He'd then have an image near impossible to take down or DDoS.
I've been getting more and more wary of facebook lately. I manually cleaned out my message/chat logs, been trying to find scripted solutions for deleting all my old wall posts and comments on other people's stuff. Do I really need anything more than a year old on there? Or even a month?Theoretically, someone could upload child porn to the CDN and force facebook to do something about it (or have an invincible file host if they continued to ignore it). I'm not about to try it, for obvious reasons, but I'd bet a nickel I'm not the first person to think of this.
well if he released the url, they should be able to remove it.
oh, wait, no O_oExactly. It's almost bizarre.
They technically should be able to remove it, though.
Also, that article is 11 months old. Maaaaaybe they did something about it and are deleted pictures actually deleted furrealz. Don't count on it, though.Check the links in the article. It does appear that facebook manually removed the original one, but other old photos persist (3 years).
Holy Crap.
So my personal Photos are still there?!!?Facebook doesn't freak me out nearly as much as Google, AKA "Let's make a copy of every webpage in existence, ever". Among other things, this is how whole Encyclopedia Dramatica was resurrected instead of staying put, and a basis of a few controversies I don't recall anymore.
What also freaks me out are old (pre-Google) websites that just won't die and may have something by you submitted to them (AKA published personally by the website's owner) even though the webmaster is long dead and so is his e-mail account.That's fine as long as everyone excludes the government. Google "Federal reserve monitoring blogs."
Google doesn't concern me as much because they left the door to the trap open. I can download all my data, I can delete my whole account, I can delete data from a certain product, etc. Facebook has started implementing some similar options, but they left out a really important one - the ability to delete large chunks of data easily. Instead, I can either delete each item individually or everything at once. Google will let me clean stuff out semi-efficiently.Regardless, I know I'm hypocritical in using Google whole-hog and complaining about facebook. But I still have a little confidence left in Google's stance. It's not excellent, but it's a lot better than facebook's.The Google web cache actually cleans out fairly quickly in my own experience. Did I miss something? And making a copy of every web page is sorta necessary for search…
Facebook is now Wikileaks for photographs.