The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode

https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

by TechSquidTV • 2 years ago

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chrisjj• 2 years 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• 2 years ago

I'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.

EricE2• 2 years ago

Someone 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

MichaelZuo• 2 years ago

I 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.

vouaobrasil2• 2 years ago

This attack was harsh...it's a shame such people don't spend their intelligence on doing something good for society.

jampekka• 2 years ago

Indeed, they could be hacking e.g. book publishers.

vouaobrasil2• 2 years ago

I was thinking more along the lines of taking down AI companies.

mossTechnician• 2 years ago

I 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.

jolmg• 2 years ago

What's a "transparency website"?

The Internet Archive is back, in read-only mode

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