Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 18 hours agoInternet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removalsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkInternet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removalsarstechnica.comPete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-216 hours ago There are alternative archival sites, To be clear, other archive sites that take snapshots of web pages are not really alternatives to the Internet Archive, which (importantly) allows uploading of arbitrary data for preservation. One example of this is mentioned in the article: https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets
minus-squarePassingThrough@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 hours agoFair, but that just makes it worse. Means we really do have a single point of failure. Alexandria anyone?
To be clear, other archive sites that take snapshots of web pages are not really alternatives to the Internet Archive, which (importantly) allows uploading of arbitrary data for preservation. One example of this is mentioned in the article:
https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets
Fair, but that just makes it worse. Means we really do have a single point of failure. Alexandria anyone?