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This is your imaginary archive from the world of pink ponies.
Meanwhile their IMA on Reddit: no promises, no commitment. Just like Microsoft EULA :)
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1i277vt/psa_ar...
I agree, JS is much worse. Because anyone could create an "untrustworthy" page on archive.org, no hack or admin assistance is required.
Watch https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=1vuio0pswjnm7 they post AT-free recipes for many paywalls
We do not know what was important in that doxx.
Probably nothing and the DDoS hype was intentional to distract attention and highlight J.P.'s doxx among the other, making them insignificant.
J.P. might be the only one of the doxxers who could promote their doxx in media, and this made his doxx special, not the content?
Anyway, it made the haystack bigger keeping needle the same.
for instance on the economist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060487
There are number of blog posts like
owner-archive-today . blogspot . com
2 years old, like J.P's first post on AT
The property of the medium: no one would repost or discuss "something sensical".
that is not the worst scream (especially after FBI and Russian trail). better to shout anything than to die in silence
it gives them a voice.
There are even YouTube videos (of GamerGate-time, thus before AI era) with a guy claiming to be the site owner. A bit difficult to OSINT :)
Yes.
Archive.org snapshots may load javascript from external sites, where the original page had loaded them. That script can change anything on the page. Most often, the domain is expired and hijacked by a parking company, so it just replaces the whole page with ads.
Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701040026/http://echo.msk.r...
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And another example: https://web.archive.org/web/20260219005158/https://time.is/
The page "got changed" every second. It is easy to make an archived page which would show different content depending on current time or whether you have Mac or Windows, or your locale, or browser fingerpring, or been tailored for you personally
Altered snapshots = hide Nora name?
ArsTechica just did the same - removed Nora from older articles. How can you trust ArsTechica after that?
from the Ars article:
--- US publishers have been fighting web services designed to bypass paywalls. In July, the News/Media Alliance said it secured the takedown of paywall-bypass website 12ft.io. “Following the News/Media Alliance’s efforts, the webhost promptly locked 12ft.io on Monday, July 14th,” the group said. (Ars Technica owner Condé Nast is a member of the alliance.) ---
AT answered why the DDoS and why it is still active https://lj.rossia.org/users/archive_today/2478.html
They are owner of ArsTechnica which wrote 3rd (or 4th?) article on AT in a row painting it in certain colors.
The article about FBI subpoena that pulled J.P's speculations out of the closet was also in ArsTechnica and by the same author, and that same article explicitly mentioned how they are happy with 12ft down
The fight is not about where it is shown and not about what, not about "links in Wikipedia", but about whether News Inc will be able to kill AT, as they did with 12FT.
That was private negotiations, btw, not public statements.
In response to J.P's blog already framed AT as project grown from a carding forum + pushed his speculations onto ArsTechnica, whose parent company just destroyed 12ft and is on to a new victim. The story is full of untold conflicts of interests covered with soap opera around DDoS.
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