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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Why are people fucking with the Internet Archive? Who benefits?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe they're just trolls doing it for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

People use Archive links to avoid giving sites traffic.

This is a problem for advertisers and media corps.

Not saying they're the ones doing this, but they'd definitely benefit.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay, enough is enough. The Internet Archive is both essential infrastructure and irreplaceable historical record; it cannot be allowed to fall. Rather than just hoping the Archive can defend itself, I say It's time to hunt down and counterattack the scum perpetrating this!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Lol you're gonna pull that thread and at the end of the sweater is gonna be the CIA or Russia.

Edit: in = is

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess this is an attempt to discredit them.

After working at many, many companies, security is usually very bad. This is typical. Not changing access tokens is also very common.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Discrediting someone usually has a goal of pushing customers to another source though. There is no other source of this information, so what would be the point?

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Destroy a source of historical documents so that the past can be contested. Sow doubt, confusion, deniability. Hide evidence of past crimes, or inconvenient documents. Plant documents, etc.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now we are talking.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Generating turmoil just prior to the USA election maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This again??

This time once archive.org is back online again... is it possible to get torrents of some of their popular data storage? For example I wouldn't imagine their catalog of books with expired copyright to be very big. Would love a community way to keep the data alive if something even worse happens in the future (and their track record isn't looking good now)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yep, that seems like the ideal decentralized solution. If all the info can be distributed via torrent, anyone with spare disk space can help back up the data and anyone with spare bandwidth can help serve it.