As FBI scrutinizes emails between top staff and executives who landed a $500 million iPad deal, superintendent wants to save emails longer. Is two years enough?

Whoever hacked Sony had a secret way to get in.

Legal fight at University of Kansas over emails from a professor who has received funding from the Koch brothers sets off a debate about undue influence and academic freedom.

Saving everything in case it might be useful later is a recipe for disaster.

Smoking gun emerges in the Potti fraud case: a grad student tried to blow the whistle, was silenced.

The emergence of the web has fundamentally affected most aspects of information communication, including scholarly communication. The immediacy that characterizes publishing information to the web, as well as accessing it, allows for a dramatic increase in the speed of dissemination of scholarly knowledge. But, the transition from a paper-based to a web-based scholarly communication system also poses challenges. In this paper, we focus on reference rot, the combination of link rot and content drift to which references to web resources included in Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) articles are subject. We investigate the extent to which reference rot impacts the ability to revisit the web context that surrounds STM articles some time after their publication. We do so on the basis of a vast collection of articles from three corpora that span publication years 1997 to 2012. For over one million references to web resources extracted from over 3.5 million articles, we determine whether the HTTP URI is still responsive on the live web and whether web archives contain an archived snapshot representative of the state the referenced resource had at the time it was referenced. We observe that the fraction of articles containing references to web resources is growing steadily over time. We find one out of five STM articles suffering from reference rot, meaning it is impossible to revisit the web context that surrounds them some time after their publication. When only considering STM articles that contain references to web resources, this fraction increases to seven out of ten. We suggest that, in order to safeguard the long-term integrity of the web-based scholarly record, robust solutions to combat the reference rot problem are required. In conclusion, we provide a brief insight into the directions that are explored with this regard in the context of the Hiberlink project.

Secret passwords sent in e-mails, lack of encryption, the list goes on.

When it comes to preserving movies, the digital revolution may turn out to be a catastrophe.

A Hack Education Project

The Quarterly Journal of Political Science has a policy of in-house review of all statistical code. This is expensive and hard to do. Is it worth it? According to Nick Eubank, an unambiguous yes: Of the 24 empirical papers subject to in-house replication … Continue reading →

As more and more details from the Sony Pictures hack seep out into the internet, it's been easy—and to be honest a little fun—to take the voyeur's view. Dumb corporate powerpoints! Passwords in a folder literally called Password! Paul Blart 2 anything! But then you actually look at the full scope of what's out there.

Thomas Herndon is definitely getting an A this semester.

There has been an awakening that online threats are real and growing worse, and that the prevailing “patch and pray” approach to computer security will not do.

A former South Carolina state employee who pleaded guilty to five felony charges after he sent personal information about more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to

We’ve all monkeyed around trying to sort out the ownership of published content. In the scientific community, copyright and its (mis)application in…

Half of all clinical trials are never published, and Big Pharma wants to keep it that way.