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This article was written with AI assistance and reviewed by the author. In May 2024, Pew Research Center reported that 23% of news webpages in its sample contained at least one broken link, and 21% of government webpages did too [1]. Across a decade of Common Crawl snapshots, a quarter of pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 were already inaccessible by October 2023 [1]. Link rot is not a niche SEO footnote. It is a measurable property of the public web.
This article was written with AI assistance and reviewed by the author. In 2019, researchers at North Carolina State University went looking for API keys and private keys in public GitHub repositories. Their NDSS paper, "How Bad Can It Git?", found that secret leakage was pervasive, affecting over 100,000 repositories, and that thousands of new, unique secrets were leaked every day [1].
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