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The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode
- chrisjj 2y ago> Hackers ... sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system. Disingenuous or what? Hackers sent emails by exploiting IA's failure to secure its access to that helpdesk system.
- hagen_dogs 2y agoI'm curious to know if IA has ways of detecting whether archived pages were deleted. If rewriting history has big implications, doing so for "the internet" would similarly be big.
- EricE 2y agoSomeone discovered a large chunk of blog.twitter.com was gone, so some screwing around has already happened. The IA is now below Wikipedia for credibility :/ EDIT: https://x.com/0rf/status/1847814884794253671 https://x.com/0rf/status/1847814884794253671
- MichaelZuo 2y agoI thought they had multiple copies of their archive stored in seperate locations? Even a full deletion in one datacentre shouldn't erase an entire chunk like that.
- EricE 2y agoIt will be interesting to see if it comes back, or if there is an explanation offered. If people have been in there for years altering data do they have enough backups to fully detect it? Do they have mechanisms to verify existing data with backups? Are they even bothering? It would be nice to know - until then I think the IA is interesting, but not trustworthy.
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- vouaobrasil 2y agoThis attack was harsh...it's a shame such people don't spend their intelligence on doing something good for society.
- jampekka 2y agoIndeed, they could be hacking e.g. book publishers.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI was thinking more along the lines of taking down AI companies.
- mossTechnician 2y agoI imagine the Internet Archive has made a lot of enemies. When it went down, there were probably a lot of publishing companies that were ecstatic about it.
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- jolmg 2y agoWhat's a "transparency website"?