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How to deal with broken external links? #1604

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@lehors

I ran a link checker and it reports a total of 16 broken links (out of 1080!!!), all of which are external/outbound, and 6 of which are "example.com" type of links and can be ignored.

The other links are broken because the destination which isn't under our control has changed.

There is one link in our spec which was reported in issue #1598 and which I'm following up on with the in-toto project as issue #547.

The other broken links are in old blog posts. I'm not sure that we should keep editing old blog posts though so I think we should agree on a general policy on how to handle these.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog and 6 more
	
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https://github.com/in-toto/attestation/blob/main/spec/predicates/spdx.md
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.2/source-requirements and 10+ more
		
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https://github.com/carabiner-dev/demo-slsa-e2e/policies/fritoto-gate-publish.hjson
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2025/10/slsa-e2e-with-ampel
	
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https://carabiner.dev/ampel@v1
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2025/10/slsa-e2e-with-ampel
	
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https://github.com/carabiner-dev/demo-slsa-e2e/blob/main/policies/check-artifacts.json
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2025/10/slsa-e2e-with-ampel
	
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https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-source-poc/blob/main/REQUIREMENTS_MAPPING.md
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2025/04/slsa-source-sprint
	
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https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-source-poc/blob/main/DESIGN.md
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2025/04/slsa-source-sprint
	
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/M-22-18.pdf
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2022/09/eo-in-plain-english
	
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https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/.github/workflows/slsa-goreleaser.yml
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2022/06/slsa-github-workflows
	
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https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/.slsa-goreleaser.yml
Linked from: https://slsa.dev/blog/2022/06/slsa-github-workflows

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