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Discover the experience of dealing with a hack on an online archive of articles and the quest to repair the mess left behind.

Written byCarl Zimmer

2009-05-13T20:44:41 | 1 min read

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Should I take it as a compliment that somebody took the time to hack my online archive of articles? It's still pretty irritating. Whatever the twisted motivations of the hacker, my web guardians and I are now figuring out how to repair the mess. My apologies to anyone seeking an article.

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