Comment Re:Wikipedia never looses anything (Score 1) 267
This is quite interesting: Wikipedia as an impromptu but secure archive.
If I were in possession of, say, classified government documents that I needed to leak or save a copy of but didn't want to go through the risk of doing it directly or storing it somewhere it could be found, I could type it into Wikipedia (from the library)!
Then later, even after it got edited out and forgotten, it would be available either in the page history or, if hidden by an admin and important enough, available by subpoena.
If I were in possession of, say, classified government documents that I needed to leak or save a copy of but didn't want to go through the risk of doing it directly or storing it somewhere it could be found, I could type it into Wikipedia (from the library)!
Then later, even after it got edited out and forgotten, it would be available either in the page history or, if hidden by an admin and important enough, available by subpoena.
