Comment by josephcsible
2 years ago
How is this more of a vulnerability than the existence of sites like archive.org is? Isn't it just a fact of the Internet that once you make something public, you can't fully take it back later?
2 years ago
How is this more of a vulnerability than the existence of sites like archive.org is? Isn't it just a fact of the Internet that once you make something public, you can't fully take it back later?
The third case in the article shows private forks being leaked publicly when the upstream goes public.
The other two cases are indeed not worse than third-party archival, but they're still socially concerning. When you ask your own host to delete something you uploaded, you don't expect them to ignore you just because someone could have already archived it maybe. Making it harder to find can still be valuable; not all archives stay available forever, if any.
> When you ask your own host to delete something you uploaded, you don't expect them to ignore you just because someone could have already archived it maybe.
I've had a service say that deleting the information fully can take eight months.
Private forks were never public beyond this gotcha
Because private forks are not meant to be public