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Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by Smithalicious »

7402 wrote: post #89
Alifatisk wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hope these hackers receive lots of negative reactions from their peers and people around them.

Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility: "A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a government project." https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/15/internet-archive-data-breach-... "Internet Archive Cyber Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers" https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.co…

Can I say "false flag"?

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by adamnew123456 »

adamnew123456 wrote: post #71
serendipty01 wrote: post #68

Does someone know where i can download MIT OCW videos ? As the videos are present on archive.org but it is down and i was unable to find them anywhere else online ? Also, yt-dlp is also not working: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128 Example: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-introductory-biology-fall-...

I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds around, and not just the IA web seeds which (I assume?) are down too.

No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1814b8e2673e8a4547fd9c4f1a417b05860230b4&dn=MIT_Structure_of_Computer_Programs_1986&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia600204.us.archive.org%2F15%2Fitems%2F

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

#93

Post by pcthrowaway »

Smithalicious wrote: post #91
7402 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility: "A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a government project." https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/15/internet-archive-data-breach-... "Internet Archive Cyber Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers" https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.co…

Can I say "false flag"?

Yeah, there's plenty of material which I've only been able to easily find on archive.org which does not look good for Israel. The dominant powers seem to be more effective at keeping their propaganda hosted than the resistance, so a takedown of the IA seems very much in line to me with Israeli capabilities and motives.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

#94

Post by compootr »

Alifatisk wrote: post #75
LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #50

There have been so many instances since it's been down that I tried to access IA resources and realized they were unavailable. I'm still bitter that of all the targets a hacker could've chose, it was the IA. Couldn't have happened to a better website. I plan on upping my monthly donation as soon as I can.

Hope these hackers receive lots of negative reactions from their peers and people around them.

Right, but it's somewhat IAs fault, since they didn't secure their shot properly

Maybe they needed this wakeup call before someone could, say, remove all of their data

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by fasa99 »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #93
Smithalicious wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I say "false flag"?

Yeah, there's plenty of material which I've only been able to easily find on archive.org which does not look good for Israel. The dominant powers seem to be more effective at keeping their propaganda hosted than the resistance, so a takedown of the IA seems very much in line to me with Israeli capabilities and motives.

Curse those clever Pro-Palestine hacktivists, what with going onto IA and erasing all material that's critical of Israel

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by olalonde »

Smithalicious wrote: post #91
7402 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility: "A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a government project." https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/15/internet-archive-data-breach-... "Internet Archive Cyber Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers" https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.co…

Can I say "false flag"?

Unpopular opinion: I suspect many "hacktivists" are driven primarily by the challenge/thrill of hacking, with the cause being more of an afterthought to appease their conscience.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by sandwichmonger »

I'm really disappointed with the Internet Archive's level of unprofessionalism when it comes to any form of downtime whatsoever (let alone the blog). The monolithic one stop shop "Internet Library" can not even bother to put updates on their downtime page and instead directs their user base to social media platforms.

Call me a nut, but I feel the IA would work better if it was run by the Library of Congress, but then again that has it's own pitfalls.

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

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Post by sandwichmonger »

Smithalicious wrote: post #91
7402 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some source information about the group that has claimed responsibility: "A group known as SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility for the attack, with a confusing antisemitic message that the archive “belongs to the USA” as if it were a government project." https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/15/internet-archive-data-breach-... "Internet Archive Cyber Attacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers" https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.co…

Can I say "false flag"?

I see no reason to believe this is a false flag. If there's no evidence for it, why should we believe it to be so?

Re: The Internet Archive is back online

#100

Post by tourmalinetaco »

diggan wrote: post #57
imglorp wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that's the case, I hope CF is making a big, periodic, donation to IA for the business value provided.

Ideally, CF would keep track of exactly how many redirects they do to IA, and donate based on the usage. Would be more fair for everyone involved.

Cloudflare willingly keeps CSAM and animal abuse sites online even when reported, the least they can do is cut IA a fat check every month.
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