10Information integrityBelow the top 20
Poisoning of historical archives
CapabilityDomain knowledgeAffordanceImpact domainBoth
Statement (NASA form)
Given that digitisation pipelines now run models over the only copies of the past, there is a possibility of a ‘cleaned’ archive that silently rewrites what the page said resulting in a public memory that cannot be checked against a physical original.
Likelihood
2Remote
Consequence
4Critical
Urgency
2Planned
The scanning van is an editor. It should not be.
Composite 10 = 2×4 + 2