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That page still exists in another web archive, in this case, the library of congress web archive, so we can go and inspect that page, and one of the things that we see is the window of opportunity, if there were a target the hack, is as small as less than 30 minutes for a hacker to go in, change the content, have the internet archive make a copy of that page, and in 2006, you could not control when the internet archive came to visit your page. you can do that now, but not then. so the window of ...

>> so this is actually a really important point. i think a lot of people dont understand the difference between the kinds of crawling that google does and what a web archive like the internet archive does. when they visit a page, they make a snap shot of it, and index it under the date that it was visited. in this case, january 11, 2006. they might come and visit it later, and we might get additional snapshots of that page. but they would be indexed under the time that they were visited, which, ...