[WikiEN-l] Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

[Armed Blowfish]

On 09/08/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On  0, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> scribbled:
> > There are three "levels" or types of deletion:
> >
> > 1. Blanking --> simplest, anyone can do this and view the blanked content
> in
> > the history
> > 2. Deletion --> admins can do this easily, other admins can see this and
> it
> > is shown in a public log
> > 3. Oversight --> [[m:Hiding revisions]] revisions are *permanently*
> removed
> > from the database by those with the "oversight" permission, can only
> > be re-added by developers (I think root).  However, there is a private log
> > that shows a *little* information.  Oversights (people with the oversight
> > permission) are assigned by ArbCom.
>
> > --
> > Casey Brown
>
> Don't forget level 4: "Deleted off the hard disks completely." IIRC,
> everything that was deleted (#2) before something like March 2004 was
> accidentally completely deleted (#4) by the devs, and of course we only
> comparatively recently got true #2 deletion for images (that is, allowing
> for admins to undelete).
>
> --
> gwern

Actually, it would be 4) unlinking, where you delete the entry in the
file system that says where the file is on the hard disk, and 5)
shredding, where you overwrite the file in zeros.

Armed Blowfish