BrianKrebsKind of sad that The Washington Post has chosen to redirect all links to my former Security Fix blog to the WaPo homepage. Some, but not all of them, are in archive.org, but it's annoying that they chose to just remove access to five years of blog posts.
James Britt@briankrebs That's insane. And inane.
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keen456@briankrebs Damn that sucks!
Jared Rimer@briankrebs I saw that once when doing some looking up when covering something else that caught my attention. I searched out what it was and Google found it, and it did exactly that. I forget what it was I was going to link to, but it was something related to one of your most recent KOS articles I blogged. That is sad. I always enjoy your work and we've used some of it as topics for TSB's podcast as well as the main show. Meant to say something to you when I found they did that crap. Wonder why they did that? And oh yes, I remember what it was, it was the McColo article when you covered something about bulletproof hosting. Wanted to link to that coverage.
suldrew 🚲🏳️🌈@briankrebs terrible
Bynkii@briankrebs Ach, that’s lame
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED
Riverside@briankrebs that’s really weak, sorry to hear that. The material is still very valid.
Meadow Whisper (Natasha L.)@briankrebs That's really infuriating :( It's such a common problem across the whole internet, and it's almost entirely a solvable problem, but so many companies and organizations just...choose not to.
Renée Burton@briankrebs and a large number of folks believe nothing can disappear on the internet...
Collette Lynner@knitcode @briankrebs nothing that you WANT to disappear, is the rule
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Richard Bejtlich@briankrebs would it be possible for you to collect and publish the stories yourself? I took that approach with my blog.
@taosecurity IDK. I'm pretty sure they own the stories, not me.
CrazyMyra@briankrebs @taosecurity If US copyright law is the same as ours on this (and it's very similar on most points), unfortunately yes. They hold the rights. Bizarrely, if you worked directly for WaPo, you'd own the work.
Kevin RussellWriters need to add the restoration of article rights to the author after .... 5 years? 3? A month?
gladiola@briankrebs This is a sign you are successful. Sorry for your loss, but a failure wouldn't have a competition problem. It's their loss, really.
They'll look petty, and you'll still be Brian Krebs.
Lou Katz@briankrebs They removed access to five years of blog posts because they could not "monetize" it. The rules of life have been updated" monetize uber alles!
Joy Denebeim@lou @briankrebs remind me if I ever become a famous writer to make sure everything I write is in archive.org
Which reminds me the Usenet archive was about to get lost several years ago, Google saved it by making it into Google groups. Which they're now killing.