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They say they will permanently delete it off of their servers, but the numerous cases where they lied about deleting account information doesn't exactly engende
by ameister14 9y ago
They say they will permanently delete it off of their servers, but the numerous cases where they lied about deleting account information doesn't exactly engender a feeling of trust.
- Balgair 9y agoA friend does HW for Seagate servers and has talked a bit about the 'math' of servers. The reality is the FB may or may not delete the pics, no matter what they think they really did. With the amount of servers they utilize, one is failing about every second, permanently erasing all the data on it. Yes, back-up servers, and copies of the data. Still, a lot of data is getting trashed every second. So, they may be trying to weasel these pics, but do not trust that they are smart enough to get around the hard facts of server decay. If they are being honest, then there is still no way to determine if some back-up somewhere actually is storing the data, despite their best efforts. The code stack for something like FB is so huge, there really is no way of knowing where a piece of data is or isn't. Kafka would be beaming at it's absurdity. In addition, they also have a lot of 'fresh' servers out there, spinning about for months, not being written to, as some algorithm works it's way around using the fresh servers. These also fail, having never been used. Seagate does not mind when companies like FB do this nonsense.