Sometimes the “I got hacked!” excuse just doesn’t cut it. That was MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid’s explanation for old blog posts containing homophobic statements that recently surfaced. She made the claim after Twitter user @Jamie_maz tweeted a series of screen shots of sections from Reid’s website, The Reid Report, found via the Wayback Machine–the Internet Archive’s tool for retrieving old Webpages–since the links had since been removed. Reid, in a statement to Mediaite yesterday, made a bizarre claim—not that the blog post screen shots themselves were fake, but instead that the text of the posts had been manipulated by an “unknown, external party” after the fact. Essentially, Reid was claiming that someone had hacked the Internet Archive to alter her posts to include these offensive statements. But the Internet Archive says it found no evidence of such hacking. According to a new blog post: “When we … [Read more...] about The Internet Archive rejects MSNBC host Joy Reid’s claim that her old blog was hacked
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On Earth Day, National Geographic is broadcasting stunning, previously unreleased photos from its archive — accompanied by music
Jeremy Berke, provided by Published 9:59 am, Sunday, April 22, 2018 Courtesy of National Geographic Earth Day is one of the world's largest celebrations of our environment. To commemorate the holiday, National Geographic is debuting a "Symphony for our World": a television event that will pair a slideshow of National Geographic's stunning wildlife photography with a five-part symphony. The music is created by Bleeding Fingers Music and performed by a full orchestra and choir. The symphony-and-photo pairing will air on National Geographic Wild on Sunday, April 22 at 7 p.m. EST. A touring, 90-minute live symphony event with projections of the photos will also debut in San Francisco, California on April 22 (Earth Day), then tour around the US and Canada. Business Channel Now Playing: Now Playing Why Betterment Is Called the "Robo-Adviser" of the Finance World Cheddar TV Oops! This Bank Sent $35 Billion to the Wrong Place Buzz 60 AT&T … [Read more...] about On Earth Day, National Geographic is broadcasting stunning, previously unreleased photos from its archive — accompanied by music
History on the move as new state archives and preservation facility begins to fill
A drum set from an innovative Wisconsin musician and record producer, the roll-top desk of a Milwaukee civil rights leader and a 3-horse outboard motor designed by Ole Evinrude. Each has its place in state history.So does a section of a pagoda-style roof from a Milwaukee gas station, a printing press from the 1850s last used in Evansville and the coaster car that won the 1936 Soap Box Derby in Madison. There was also a newspaper box from The Onion and a wood stove from the early 1900s.On Thursday, they shared space on a moving truck for a trip across the isthmus — rising from the basement of the Wisconsin Historical Society and ending up in one of the most modern and sophisticated historical storage facilities in the world. Located near the Yahara River between East Washington Avenue and Williamson Street, the $46.7 million State Archive Preservation Facility is slowly filling its 188,000 square feet of climate-controlled space with some of the most important and historically … [Read more...] about History on the move as new state archives and preservation facility begins to fill
Historian who stole WWII dog tags from the National Archives is sentenced to 1 year in prison
In messages with potential buyers of military artifacts, Antonin DeHays was an eager salesman who offered vivid descriptions.When peddling World War II dog tags that had been recovered from a wreck, he pointed out the blood, fire and fuel stains on the metal, calling the markings "very powerful items that witness the violence of the crash."On another dog tag, he texted a potential buyer that the item was "salty" or visibly war-damaged while also marketing the "partially burned" appearance of a Red Cross identification card from the same era.But DeHays failed to mention one important detail in his sales pitches on eBay and by other means. The war relics he was hawking were government property, items he plundered during visits to the National Archives just outside of Washington, D.C., while leveraging his status as an expert on World War II.On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland sentenced DeHays to 364 days in prison for the theft of government records and ordered him to pay more than … [Read more...] about Historian who stole WWII dog tags from the National Archives is sentenced to 1 year in prison
Danish security service kept ‘deleted’ data in secret archive: report
Denmark’s police security service PET transferred an unknown amount of data to a secret database despite a law requiring its deletion, according to a report. According to Danish law, sensitive personal information must be deleted no more than 15 years after it has been recorded by PET. But PET employees can see information in the secret database if they are given permission by bosses, Politiken reports. The agency wrote that it, as part of investigations, had “very, very rarely accessed the storage-worthy material” in a mail to Politiken. Exactly how often was not specified. PET is not obliged to ask others for permission when accessing the material, but did agree in 2015 to inform watchdog agency Tilsynet med Efterretningstjenesterne (Supervision of Intelligence Services) whenever it accessed the material. According to public documents accessed by Politiken, PET referred to the use of the secret database as “logical deletion” (logisk sletning). … [Read more...] about Danish security service kept ‘deleted’ data in secret archive: report