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Why not link the original Krebs article? http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-holes-in-fbis-story/ http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-

• dang 12y ago
  Ok, we changed to that from http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/10/reading-silk-road-configuration.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/10/reading-silk-road-configur..., which points to it.
  • cyphunk 12y ago
    oh HN, the articles are completely different with one general and the other technically detailed.
  • deleted 12y ago
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  • dchest 12y ago
    Please, change it back. These are completely different articles, and most of comments here are about the first one.
    • colinbartlett 12y ago
      Seriously how is this constructive? We let people up vote and comment on an article and then swap it out to something else leaving all the comments and up votes? HackerNews, you frustrate me.
    • tim333 12y ago
      Also the new one is not accessible due to server overload.
    • dang 12y ago
      Ok, done.
      • colinbartlett 12y ago
        Thanks for all the work you do to make this place a little bit better every day.
        • dang 12y ago
          You're welcome! I appreciate your saying so.
      • dchest 12y ago
        Thank you!
  • pbhjpbhj 12y ago
    I don't know why you (HN administration) need to do these URL switches. Isn't their room on the internet to add a line "Editor (dang): original source appears to be https://example.com/original-source" https://example.com/original-source" and let people decide for themselves which source to use whilst maintaining the context for the discussion?
    • deleted 12y ago
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  • graeme 12y ago
    This seems like a mistake. The original posted article wasn't blogspam. It commented on the krebs article. Adding detailed commentary to a source has a long and valid history.
  • fragmede 12y ago
    Maybe we could have a whitelist, where non-blogspam blogs get a 'pass' on being edited. In this case, the Errata Sec blog provides much more value than some crappy blog spam and stands on it own. (Errata sec provides a desired value-add, you might say.)
• thomaslutz 12y ago
  That would have been the far better choice. I don't know how this article got to #1 on HN (see my other comment).