“How ironic that the most quaintly analog form of research possible, using physical books in a physical library, has been devastated by the hijacking of a digital system”: Carolyn Dever tells the story of the Halloween ransomware attack of the British Library. More at the British Library’s website.
[Small world: I just read about “Michael Field” in Sarah Ogilvie’s The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary.]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
The British Library was hacked
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The library system here in Toronto was attacked in October, and full service is yet to be resumed. Details. (The link redirects.)
That’s awful.
There’s nothing about Toronto in The New York Times, and just one article about the British Library. I think attacks on libraries deserve much more attention. And in Ukraine, libraries have been bombed — to obliterate the materials of culture and memory.
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