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staticassertionyesterday at 9:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

But how is this related to the internet being archivable? This sort of proves the point that URLs were always a terrible idea to reference in your compliance docs, the answer was always to get the actual docs.


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paulryanrogersyesterday at 10:32 PM

IME compliance tools will take a doc and or a link. What's acceptable is up to the auditor. IMO both a link and doc are best.

Links alone can be tempting as you've to reference the same docs or policies over and over for various controls.

aussieguy1234yesterday at 10:46 PM

Wayback machine URLs are much more likely to be stable.

Even if the content is taken down, changed or moved, a copy is likely to still be available in the Wayback Machine.

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