Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later
by alexyim on Monday October 11, 2010 @07:31PM
(#1781714)
There's a subtlety that's missing here. For someone to save and reupload a picture, it has to be sufficiently interesting to warrant that attention. But this use case could be more simple. Suppose I directly link to an image while chatting on IM. The owner of the photo deletes it. A year later I can still reference the same URL.
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Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later
by Terretta on Monday October 11, 2010 @07:43PM
(#1781738)
This is usually how I share images: right-click, copy image address, paste in IM or email.
To your point, yes, these URLs remain in email archives and IM logs.
This is why Flickr changes an image's URL if you change its privacy settings.
Re:Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later
by tptacek on Monday October 11, 2010 @07:34PM
(#1781719)
I wouldn't to argue that there's no failure mode here, only that it's minimal. The URL you're talking about here is never promoted by the Facebook interface; you're more likely to click on the image, end up on the pretty landing page FB generates, and copy-paste the URL bar.