A WEBSITE called the Wayback Machine last week opened a gateway to more than
10 billion archived Web pages. But it also opened a can of worms.
The site (http://web.archive.org) has been using software robots to record
Web pages since 1996. But these include pages that were later removed by site
owners because they contained material that was pirated, illegal, or deemed too
sensitive. When the archive went live last week, the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission had to ask archive founder Brewster Kahle to pull sensitive
information the site had resurrected on America’s nuclear reactors—which
the NRC had…
