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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by pmlnr on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:13AM (#13283981)
> open source everything

Sure. Like they open sourced their Blu-Ray cold storage system. Oh, wait, if they do that, people will realize they should be sued for using the word "delete", since you can't remove data from Blu-Ray.

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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by cbr on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:02AM (#13284378)
The standard way to do this is to store the data encrypted, and store the key in something modifiable. Then when there's a delete you scramble the key.
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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by xg15 on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:07PM (#13288587)
So who is auditing Facebook, making sure they actually do that?
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