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by nfnaaron 5863 days ago
So you can't delete delete a picture if other people, who don't own it, like to look at it?
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It's more complicated than that and I'm talking and about edge caches in general here, not for my employer. I once saw a Flickr employee (Cal Henderson?) pluck the original Ludicorp logo out of Yahoo's edge caches. That's not to mention ISP caches and proxies, third party image search, etc, that neither you, I, Akamai, nor Facebook control. I'll look into it and see what's going on in this case.
Not very hard to imagine how that might be exploited in some undesirable ways.