While an interesting perspective, this HN article is a poster child for how not to resurrect old blog posts. Initially, I was not sure how much credibility to

While an interesting perspective, this HN article is a poster child for how not to resurrect old blog posts. Initially, I was not sure how much credibility to give this because there were no corroborating records for the time period specified. All the important identifiers to corroborate were largely removed or missing, yet another sign we are one step closer to living in a world of Neil Stephenson's Anathem. The blog claims to be from 2014, but it most definitely is not archived at that time period for the article linked. IA shows it first showed up in 2023. There is no reference link from a prior domain where it might have previously been archived. While the events referenced did occur sometime between 2002, and Sharlene P. Abrams resigned in 2006, and accepted a guilty plea agreement later. All that indicates this (without having her name) were similar news articles with dead links (but description summary cache ironically still somewhat intact), which were not archived, and there is only one surviving article around 2016 from a journalist, William Alden, that I then tracked back across domains to the link below that was actually archived and corroborating on the dealbook link. Aside from this there was very little record this post actually existed at that time. In practice, a single corroborating document is insufficient to establish the truth of events. Additionally, why change the name of the guilty? The indictments are a matter of public record, and Options backdating was clearly breaking the law at that time. For those that wanted to dig into this further, you can find more information under the press releases made at the time, which are archived at the following locations. They were a real pain to find, and originate from the sole surviving corroborating article by Alden, a single trail of bread crumbs. https://web.archive.org/web/20030422045358/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/10/14/daily16.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030422045358/http://www.bizjou... https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/how-ben-horowitz-avoided-an-options-backdating-scandal/ https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/... https://web.archive.org/web/20140207093911/https://www.bhorowitz.com/why_i_did_not_go_to_jail https://web.archive.org/web/20140207093911/https://www.bhoro... https://web.archive.org/web/20130415014642/http://www.justice.gov/usao/can/news/2010/2010_09_16_abrams.guiltyplea.press.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130415014642/http://www.justic...