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That link is broken for me but I assume you meant to link to [0]. I think if there is a “safeguard” in a system, that definitely fits the bill of a supply chain risk. The only vague term here is “adversary”.

[0]: https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/252.239-7018-supply-chain-....

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Working link: https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/252.239-7018-supply-chain-...

HN separates trailing dots from URLs, so that you can have working URLs at the end of a sentence. Hence you have to percent-encode trailing dots if they are a necessary part of the actual URL. (Same for some other punctuation characters, probably.)

This behavior is common for auto-hyperlinking of URLs in running text, so it’s bad practice to have such URLs.

Ugh, sorry for the broken link, I even pasted the same string into a new tab to make sure it worked because I thought the period at the end looked weird, and it was fine. Dunno how it got mangled.

[EDIT] Oh man, yours is like that too? WTF.

[EDIT2] If I follow your link, hit the 404 page, then add a period at the end of the URL, it does load. God that's strange.

Well, we ended up on the same page in any case, in at least one sense.

Yes, we both accurately located and linked to the "page not found" page.

That gave me a good, actual LOL, thanks for that one.

Did you edit it to fix it? Is HN refusing to include the period as part of the URL?

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