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

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 83 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

Edit: in = is

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Did I stutter?

[-] dovahking@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Where are the anonymous group and 4chan autists? They should attack these assholes. Attacking internet archive is like kicking a kitten. Everyone will hate you for it.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn't put it past them...

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Someone else looked to the group claiming responsibility for this. It's a pro-Palestinian Russian group

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

Well right wingers want to ban books and services like IA make that harder since they provide easy access to download or digitally borrow those books. It makes it harder for them to deny people access to those books since they can find them online. Of course, there are other ways people can still obtain those books, IA isn't the only one, but it's the easiest and the most convent.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] zlatiah@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago

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)

[-] Exeous@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Like this idea

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

Most of us can't afford the sort of disk capacity they use, but it would be really cool if there were a project to give volunteers pieces of the archive so that information was spread out. Then volunteers could specify if they want to contribute a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes of drive space towards the project and the software could send out packets any time the content changes. Hmm this description sounds familiar but I can't think of what else might be doing something similar -- anyone know of anything like that that could be applied to the archive?

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the projects I've heard about that have done something like this broke it into multiples.

For example, 1000GB could be broken into forty 25GB torrents and within that, you can tell the client to only download some of the files.

At scale, a webpage can show the seed/leach numbers and averages foe each torrent over a time period to give an idea of what is well mirrored and what people can shore up. You could also change which torrent is shown as the top download when people go to the contributor page and say they want to help host it ensuring a better distribution.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure all their content is available by torrent, so you could mirror the data and provide the torrent files for direct download. It'll probably be here when it's back up: https://archive.org/details/public-domain-archive

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Anna’s Archive does this. I think its a really good way to make it difficult to take them down.

Hopefully this hack starts some conversations on how they can ensure longevity for their project. Seems they’re being attacked on multiple fronts now.

[-] RxBrad@infosec.pub 44 points 3 weeks ago

The majority of Reddit discourse on this is wild. The crowd there is going HARD to try and paint IA in the most negative light possible.

I know we don't like Reddit here, but for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1g7w0rh/internet_archive_issues_continue_this_time_with/

It's almost as if the "hackers" and/or copyright holders are running that conversation.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Since it's Reddit, I would guess copyright sockpuppets are steering the narrative to help damage them further.

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 weeks ago

Not this crap again

[-] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently, BlackMeta is behind the DDoS attack to the Internet Archive. Apparently they are pro-Palestine hacktivists - their X account also has some russian written in it.

(Edit) Also, Internet Archive is banned on China since 2012 and Russia since 2015.

[-] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Definitely not their genocidal neighbors terrorizing as usual. /s

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Quick question for those more in the know: Have these events disrupted IA's ability to archive pages? I ask because I was recently talking with a security guy about a novel malware that used a hacked webpage for command injection. One possible motive that came to mind, if the archiving was disrupted would be to cover tracks for a similar malware. Inject code, perform malicious activity, revert, then, there's more time before the control code is discovered.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hope they had a backup

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