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Worst fears come true. Its never deleted, its just marked as deleted. All your baddies are organized for Apple and the FBI.
by resource_waste 2y ago
Worst fears come true. Its never deleted, its just marked as deleted. All your baddies are organized for Apple and the FBI.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- aendruk 2y agoThey said it’s caused by database corruption. Easy enough to imagine that the thing tasked with doing actual deletion just couldn’t traverse to all of its targets.
- primedteam 2y agoI like this theory. I wonder the "Delete after 30 days" part used to work and then they added some more security features which made it not work unless the phone was unlocked. i.e. it could delete out of the DB but failed to delete the file if the phone was locked when the job ran.
- smolder 2y agoYeah, though it's plausible that database corruption could just mean "the deleted flag was accidentally unset."
- resource_waste 2y ago10/10 PR Spin. I love the answer and can sleep well.
- valentinemsmith 2y agoIs anything ever truly “deleted” or just presented to users as such? I imagine once an image has been synced to the cloud, it’s stored somewhere forever, for reasons you hinted at. I work for a large internet/tech company, and all images uploaded by users must be permanently retained somewhere per our legal policies, even if that means sending it to long-term storage after it’s been “deleted”. And if law enforcement submits a request asking for your files, we can pull it back up.