Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later

Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by natrius on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:40PM (#1781592)

In other news, photos persist on your hard drive after you delete them.

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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by jonknee on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:44PM (#1781606)

Though not in a globally accessible form.

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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by tptacek on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:53PM (#1781629)

In other news, if your "friends" repost your Facebook photos to other photo sharing sites, those posts are not deleted after you delete your Facebook photo.

Same issue.

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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by jonknee on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:56PM (#1781639)

It's not really the same issue. This issue is you tell Facebook to delete something and they don't. I don't really see it as a huge problem myself, but I can see how someone who's not familiar with how CDNs work would be upset.

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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by tptacek on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:58PM (#1781645)

It's definitely a real PR problem, even if it isn't a semantically authentic security problem (a term I have just coined).

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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later by jonknee on Monday October 11, 2010 @07:10PM (#1781669)

I find it akin to how if you know a photo's URL you can view it regardless of rights. That makes perfect sense if you know how web servers work and that there is enough randomness in the URL that it really is secure, but to a lot of people it feels wrong. I know 90% of my friends would be shocked that I could post a public link to their beach photos.

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