Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 18 days agoInternet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removalsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down10
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkInternet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removalsarstechnica.comPete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-218 days 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-up7·18 days 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?