On 20/04/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How would that matter, though? It's the content
being removed that's
sensitive, not the fact that *something* is gone; and if the offending
revisions are deleted/hidden/whatever, there's no way for someone to
get at that content (at least not directly from us).
Sure there is, especially if the offending material has been sitting
on the site for, oh, say, 4 months? This is where the "free flow of
information" thing comes in - it's precisely because we're focused on
getting information out there quickly that it's incredibly hard to mop
it up suddenly if we need to. After 4 months, there are probably
several hundred copies of the material available on the net, possibly
even more on various users' hard disks, without mentioning Google's
cache,
archive.org ....
Steve