Michael and everyone - This is scary stuff! I've just been going through my own site, checking to see if there's anything suspicious. I can't see anything, but it would be really easy to miss something, and the fact that it's safe today doesn't mean it's still going to be safe tomorrow.
I still use a lot of hand-written HTML on my personal site, and I feel as if that's comparatively safe. But then with hand-written HTML the risk you run is that something new is going to come along (eg. CSS or HTML5), a new standard to which you feel you ought to upgrade your pages, leaving you with a mountain of work to do (I generally only implement new formats on new pages: I can't bear to go back and re-write all the old stuff, unless it's actually going to stop working if I don't do something). On the other hand the Dr Hairy site is made using a content-management system called Concrete5, which is lovely and modern-looking and easy-to-use, but it was made by somebody else so I don't fully understand it (I don't even fully understand my own PHP code any more, never mind anybody else's), and it may well be vulnerable to attack, or become vulnerable at some point in the future. I think we really ought to think seriously about "mirror site" or archiving arrangements for some of this stuff. If all the work collected on DVblog were to disappear it would be a terrible loss. I daresay that all of those videos are available elsewhere, but that particular selection, in that particular sequence, with those particular curatorial comments, represents something unique and irreplaceable. Perhaps NetBehaviour/Furtherfield could make a bit of money for itself by offering some archiving facilities? I wouldn't mind forking out a few quid. - Edward _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
