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by mwambua 1924 days ago
Can you remedy this problem by making it so that anyone can delete the file? That way anyone can take it down if they have a problem with it? It's supposed to be ephemeral storage anyway... people might not mind having files disappear.
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Two problems there:

1. Many people are more likely to go to a lot of effort to complain loudly and widely rather than hit a simple "delete this" link.

2. Such feature is basically a self-DoS. If someone takes a disliking to the app or a user of it they can script up a "delete everything" and fire it off.