Physical security threatened because deleted file still in WP cache
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Hi!
I have a sensitive request regarding the physical well-being of a woman in the Middle East. We have published a picture of her on our site, and need to remove it to protect her physical well-being.
I deleted the page with the image, and then the image from the media library. It’s still cached by WordPress.com, and comes up high in Google search results. So I ask for the image to be deleted from cache as soon as possible.
I have written a draft on my page with further details regarding the security situation, and a link to the image file.
If someone can mark this thread so admins can see it, I would much appreciate it! Thank you.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I have done so. But I have some bad news.
If you have deleted the image from the image library, it’ll be gone within a very few hours at the most. But then you have a job to do with search engines: You will have to contact every search engine, and by that I mean Google.com, Google.ca, Google.co.uk, etc, etc, plus Yahoo, plus Bing, and ask them all to remove the cache. Otherwise it can linger in those search engine caches for several months.
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Yup, I’m aware of this. For most pictures distributed in other sites I’ve already done that. But yeah, it is a huge hassle…
Thanks for contacting the admins!
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ccandolin–
I’m going to send you a private e-mail so we can look into this in more detail.
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@lizthefair – I know the OP can’t replace the image & page – – but is it possible for staff or developers to replace the image with a different image (maybe just a blank 1x1px thing) – and to bring the page back (if the title is not a security issue) with a “The contents have been deleted by Author”??
Then when search engines crawl the site the old security problem info is replaced with blank stuff – that might help search engines purge the original content quicker – sometimes FTP access can be useful
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auxclass–this case involves some elements not to be discussed in public, but I assure you we will do what can be done.
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@lizthefair – I am well aware the TOS & safety issues are moved out of the forum, I did not expect any specific info on what the issue is beyond what the OP posted in the original post – my only reason in posting my suggestion is that they are options available with a .ORG install and I know that the Staff and others are super users on all of our sites and might have the option of getting around the limitations I have as a blog Admin – so it was a suggestion in case you and others had not thought of swapping files with harmless ones
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