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Wednesday, November 28, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000094419nov27.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology The Web Never Forgets By DAVID COLKER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Government agencies have tried to remove sensitive information, only to discover that copies have proliferated and they're virtually impossible to eradicate. Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry rushed to pull a suddenly sensitive report from its Web site titled "Industrial Chemicals and Terrorism." The agency eliminated all traces of the document and its description of sources for home-brew nerve gases and improvised explosives. But on the World Wide Web, almost nothing truly dies.
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