Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 10, 2020 16:28 UTC (Thu) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289)
Parent article: Security quote of the week

A good policy for work that references outside resources and that is expected to live longer than a year would be to ensure those external urls are saved in the wayback machine : https://web.archive.org/

Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 12, 2020 17:02 UTC (Sat) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link] (2 responses)

But that service doesn’t exist for all that long yet, and who knows how long it’ll be around…

Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 14, 2020 19:54 UTC (Mon) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link] (1 responses)

archive.org has been around since 1996 (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive), and should be around for much longer. Admittedly the 'Save Page Now' feature has only been around since 2013, but I agree that that feature should be used for all published papers and their links.

Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 15, 2020 2:10 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

The web based 'Save Page Now' feature would be pretty tedious to use on a paper unless you run it through some scripting. Luckily there is also the email based equivalent feature at savepagenow@archive.org that you can just copy-paste the whole paper into.

Either way, probably all the journals and preprint sites and similar should be automatically archiving all links from submitted papers.

Security quote of the week

Posted Sep 12, 2020 17:05 UTC (Sat) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

I believe that’s what is usually done on Wikipedia.