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I was researching some information related to what happens to passwords when you die (that’s another story) and stumbled across an interesting bit of post-factum editorial revisionism by Wired. It seems that a particular author may have some problems based on the inability of Wired to track down some of the sources in the article. Perhaps the content, while well written, is only a work of fiction? Is this a really old story that I missed or forgot was already addressed by Wired?

Read the disclaimer next to the author.
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So this got me thinking about the state of our web content. I mean, who really polices the quality of content on the net? No one, impossible, right? What happens to the news integrity of an article after it’s immediacy has worn off? Does it matter if an Internet news article turns out to be a fake after the fact? Tree falls in the forest…