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If I read this right, surely the point is that he was not crawling the /Wiley/ site, but rather something else that contained those links? This is the thing abo
by glimmung 10y ago
If I read this right, surely the point is that he was not crawling the /Wiley/ site, but rather something else that contained those links? This is the thing about deliberate contamination - it spreads.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoMy reading of the article has him accessing the Wiley site using a crawler. He may have sourced the fake DOIs from some other seed document but he didn't actually try to fetch them with a browser. He states that he accessed the site from the library so that he had access to Wiley online (as part of the Library's access arrangement). And he states that he was building tools for automatically linking documents. (tool, not browser).