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Internet Archive: Security breach alert
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been tried several times, but it's hard because it's such a massive quantity of data. The IPFS backup never really got off the ground. They have their own backups which I think is good enough for now unless someone plans on donating a few hundred million.
Perhaps you can persuade Elon that it owns the libs?
I don't want Elon anywhere near Archive.org, please don't give him any ideas. There are plenty of other people in the world with money.
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#163More details here about the data breach. Stolen database contains 31 million records. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-arch...
> The data will soon be added to HIBP My unique-to-archive.org email address is not there yet.
How do they get a hold of all these leaks so fast?
Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert
#164More details here about the data breach. Stolen database contains 31 million records. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-arch...
Friendly reminder to generate a unique password for every account you create so database leaks like this one don't bother you (besides on the site they're used).
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure that placing free long distance calls isn't harmful to the org whose infrastructure you're using for your own benefit, but 2600 (Hz) is a respected hacker magazine and phreaking and Cap'n crunch whistles are seen as cool Hacking the Internet Archive and only placing an alert with a provocative message, I could see my teenage self do that. My judgment of the character is going to depend on what it turns o…
Doing the internet equivalent of burning the largest library in the world is not exactly a good person's behavior.
This isn't the equivalent of burning it, a closer equivalent would be barricading it for a while.
Still awful, but nowhere near as awful as the former.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 tha…
https://www.ccc.de/en/hackerethik > Make public data available, protect private data.
For all I know, they've given the private data to an organisation dedicated to alerting people about breaches. If they fear that the data may also have been accessed by others, that's not a reprehensible thing to do by itself. Besides the DDoS apparently being from the same author (which seems odd because those ethics are incongruous), I don't know what else they've done so I don't know that it's in violation of what you linked
Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
What weird conspiracy is this? US interests dont involve taking down archive.org
People in other parts of the thread say it's Israel. (Which certainly is "aligned with US interests abroad", as the powerful see it anyway). I think it is ridiculous conspiracism, right now anything anyone doesn't like they think Israel is behind it. The crazy rise of conspiracism in our society in general, combined with Israel really is doing some nasty stuff (but not controlling everything you don't like), combined…
There are so many well documented awful things IL has done that most people don't know about (many still haven't even heard of the Sde Teiman video) that folks could be spreading the word about instead. It's a shame to see this kind of conspiracy mindset from at least some people who probably mean well. There is no harm in waiting a little bit for facts to emerge.
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#168A 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.
It's called torrent protocol and it doesn't work, no one wants to spend money and bandwidth hosting a god forsaken movie or book that only a handful of people care about.
Not much money and bandwidth if you aren't on a metered connection. You can share tens of gigabytes or more on a cheap read only flash plugged into into a $25 single board computer that draws way less than a full PC and can be left sitting there near the router. Just limit its bandwidth on the torrent client and you won't even notice it during online gaming. The client can be as small as the Transmission daemon running headless on one of the many Debian based embedded distros: all control through either the web interface or from its client: no monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. just a small cheap box.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
(just an example, as it's way overkill for the task)
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
> How long does an average hard drive last?
This is a great question, and a state of the art kind of thing.
HDDs are sold with a lifetime drive read/write amount and power cycle warranty, along with usually some environmental operating envelope. read/write relates to the quality/space of the platter, power cycle is usually the actuator & read/write head being reseated/wearing out. Environment is the same as all other devices in a DC.
Most folks replace drives when they die (reads/writes stall or return garbage), or when the warranty runs out. Some will pay for a warranty exception, and some will just use the drive outside of warranty. Depending on how you use the drive, what environment it's in, etc changes how much you can push things.
I'd say anywhere from 4-8 years, depending on how it's used. In many cases it can be cheaper to have a worse environment for your fleet (thus using less power on hvac) and replace devices more frequently.