British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
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British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
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Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#2I don't remember when I read about this previously but apparently this happens a lot. Something is opened to the public, forgotten about, quietly pulled.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#3I don't remember when I read about this previously but apparently this happens a lot. Something is opened to the public, forgotten about, quietly pulled.
Moral: copy it all.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#4I don't remember when I read about this previously but apparently this happens a lot. Something is opened to the public, forgotten about, quietly pulled.
Moral: copy it all.
Which of course is what every state actor will have done as soon as it was released. Which points to this being a reorganisation or representation rather than an edit. If it were an edit then the rational way to do it is silently with a document collection update designed to hide the changes from detection via metadata. So, you accept that the other state actors out there have what you leaked in error, but you hope that they haven't noticed, and you remove the possibility that someone will alert them to the information independently.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moral: copy it all.
Which of course is what every state actor will have done as soon as it was released. Which points to this being a reorganisation or representation rather than an edit. If it were an edit then the rational way to do it is silently with a document collection update designed to hide the changes from detection via metadata. So, you accept that the other state actors out there have what you leaked in error, but you hope t…
Money's actually on error, I bet you someone just closed the data down without realizing it.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#6I don't remember when I read about this previously but apparently this happens a lot. Something is opened to the public, forgotten about, quietly pulled.
This is, incidentally, also the default way the Web seems to work.
Someone publishes something. Fast forward a year or three, the domain expires, or site redesign is done, and all previous links are broken. Only the information that was not forgotten gets put back again.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which of course is what every state actor will have done as soon as it was released. Which points to this being a reorganisation or representation rather than an edit. If it were an edit then the rational way to do it is silently with a document collection update designed to hide the changes from detection via metadata. So, you accept that the other state actors out there have what you leaked in error, but you hope t…
Money's actually on error, I bet you someone just closed the data down without realizing it.
Yup, makes sense for sure... if it's cock-up or conspiracy, it's always cock-up.
Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#8Re: British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which of course is what every state actor will have done as soon as it was released. Which points to this being a reorganisation or representation rather than an edit. If it were an edit then the rational way to do it is silently with a document collection update designed to hide the changes from detection via metadata. So, you accept that the other state actors out there have what you leaked in error, but you hope t…
Money's actually on error, I bet you someone just closed the data down without realizing it.
I'd love to agree, had this not happened just a year ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/uk-governmen...