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Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Well this should be fun. Now I'll have to dig through my IA account and remember if I donated to them directly via credit card (and if they stored it), or if it was through PayPal.

Good point and thank you for the reminder. Time to go check my email archives...

they use Stripe

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100%. https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399?t=j3xDz... This Twitter account is suspicious and odd. I don't think anyone doing this is stupid enough to actually believe that they're doing it to "help Palestine." Seems like a job by Israel or supporting countries pretending to be supporters of Palestine.

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Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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100%. https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399?t=j3xDz... This Twitter account is suspicious and odd. I don't think anyone doing this is stupid enough to actually believe that they're doing it to "help Palestine." Seems like a job by Israel or supporting countries pretending to be supporters of Palestine.

What is the connection? I don’t understand how this would help either Isreal or Palestine?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa... I found this reddit thread from /r/DataHoarder about backing up the internet archive particularly interesting, given the circumstances

50 PB * $0.014/GB = $0.7M. $0.014/GB is from[1], bare drive cost without chassis, power, or redundancy. 1: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

How long does an average hard drive last? You'd have to spend that 700k every that many years (plus the extra bits you mentioned). Quite an operation actually

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https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/04/thank-you-ubuntu-and-lin... "The Internet Archive is wholly dependent on Ubuntu and the Linux communities that create a reliable, free (as in beer), free (as in speech), rapidly evolving operating system. It is hard to overestimate how important that is to creating services such as the Internet Archive." Maybe CUPS?

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A demonstration of what collateral damage actually means. The bracker was a terrorist so we killed the candle stick makers family.

I think the existing collateral damage examples were pretty actual already. By burying terrorist headquarters under civilian apartment buildings, Hezbollah guarantees collateral damage.
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