1) no idea, but... 2) possible reason is not just to hack I.A. itself, but also to gain notoriety by hacking something both publicly known and not as well funded as a bank or government or whatnot
Except people think you’re not only a lame and incompetent hacker that can’t hack anything well funded but also a real piece of shit for hacking what is essentially a struggling public resource people love.
Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
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#13* Are you sure it is pro palestinian org ?
* Are you sure that org not a puppets created by the Publisher who hated IA ?
So many possible questions.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
#14Believing 100% without skepticism are bad way to get the conclusion. * Are you sure it is pro palestinian org ? * Are you sure that org not a puppets created by the Publisher who hated IA ? So many possible questions.
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#15And besides donating money what else can we do to help them (IA)? Make more archivers? Distributed? IPFS? How to ensure content integrity/trust?
i think people are trying to back up the internet archive: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa... ...
this is their volunteer page, which i haven't checked out either. https://archive.org/about/volunteerpositions.php
Re: Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
#16They lost big cases so IA won't survive long anyway