Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by porpoisely on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:55PM (#19177143)

I agree. I find it hard to believe that anyone is going to transport all the physical tapes from cold storage and look through all the physical tapes.

My guess is that the data is removed on production and recovery sites. The data will be left on tape since they will most likely never see the light of day again.

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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by fh973 on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:52AM (#19178368)

This is usually solved by encrypting and throwing away the key or seed to effectively delete.

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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by code_duck on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:52AM (#19190964)

Doesn’t that just effectively delete it until it is common to have sufficient computing power to crack the encryption?

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