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British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoI 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.
- wbl 8y agoMoral: copy it all.
- sgt101 8y agoWhich 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.
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoMoney's actually on error, I bet you someone just closed the data down without realizing it.
- sgt101 8y agoYup, makes sense for sure... if it's cock-up or conspiracy, it's always cock-up.
- cam_l 8y agoBest way to hide a conspiracy..
- coroxout 8y agoI'd love to agree, had this not happened just a year ago: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/uk-government-urged-to-search-for-national-archives-papers https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/uk-governmen...
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThis 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.