Hi Charles,
On 09/15/2011 02:52 PM, Charles Hamilton wrote:
I'm the I.T. Manager for Dyer& Associates, P.C. One of our former
employees posted some code to CPAN a while ago and this code contained
some sensitive data that belongs to some of our clients. Specifically,
these files:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.11/t/problemdocs/problemdyerfile.pdf
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.12/t/problemdocs/problemdyerfile.pdf
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.11/t/leodocs/tuition.pdf
only Andreas Koenig can do an instantaneous (no three-day wait) delete
from PAUSE. He reads this list and will likely get back to you as soon
as he can.
You will have a very hard time eradicating all copies of these documents
from the internet. As Graham said, regular CPAN mirrors will
automatically remove the files after they have been deleted from PAUSE.
There are several sites that do not delete any distributions by default.
This is by design. Apart from the two that Graham mentioned, there is
another run by Barbie for the CPAN testers. I am CC'ing Barbie on this
email.
It is possible for anybody to run such a non-deleting mirror on his
computer at home. We can't possibly track all copies down, just the most
prominent ones.
Best regards,
Steffen
