“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
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#92“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
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Is there any reason to think this? (Honestly asking). It seems like quite a stretch to me unless there is some reason to connect the two.
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#93A pulled an old friends website down from Internet Archive.
He's moved on the next stage, but I was glad I was able to put his site back up.
It'll be a shame if IA goes down permanently, but we need a decentralized solution anyway.
Having a single mega organization in charge of our collective heritage isn't a good idea.
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#95“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
That's a strange thing to read on Hacker news. Isn't that description the definition of hack value? As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html
Now, it depends what the "it" is referring to here, but so far all I've heard is about an alert() message saying the usernames will be sent to a breach alerting site. If they're doing it just for the heck of it, it's still costing a lot of people a lot of time that they could have spent doing better things, but I'd reserve special places in hell for the people who do plan this out carefully and make malicious demands
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#98They're hiring, if you're looking for a job. https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3bb8222ccd9a88ea
> Software Engineer, Archiving & Data Services (Remote) [...] Preliminary duties of the role will primarily focus on developing Archive-It That is. Paying over 100k at the lower end of the range for 3y experience as software engineer
Not even in the 10th % for the area per https://www.levels.fyi/heatmap/
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#99Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!
Is it a genuine alert, or hacking artifact? Sometimes with friendly / attempt-at-humorous error messages it’s difficult to tell
I feel like it's safe to assume the official Internet Archive would not write a "friendly"/attempt-at-humurous/unprofessional/confusing/delivered-by-popup message advertising a devastating security breach. Oh also while announcing that nowhere else.
Obv an attackers ability to insert a message does imply a breach beyond a DoS. But I am pretty confident that message was not from the IA.
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#100Reporting on security issues is always so terrible. Is it a data breach or is it a DDoS? (Or both). Those are opposite things. One is trying to release secret information one is trying to make the site inaccessible.
That's like complaining the reporting on the weather forecast channel is so often wrong. This news broke about an hour ago and the IA is down, what witchcraft do you expect news media to practice! Nobody yet has the answers you're looking for, give it some time and log files will be audited and the reporting becomes useful :)