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Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by JasonADrury »

riedel wrote: post #53
JasonADrury wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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While I would it also better to a bit redact names and details mentioned in the original article in hindsight, I hardly find real defamation. I guess you want to provide random unproven evidence if someone is target of various foreign law enforcement and commercial sites. In the article they even call for donations to archive.today . As far as I read the tone of the post is full of admiration. Funny thing is that IMH…

Defamation? No.

Doxing? Yes.

It's clear that the person running archive.today does not actively publicize their identity.

> As far as I read the tone of the post is full of admiration

Exactly like an unhinged fan stalking a celebrity.

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by throwingcookies »

ryandrake wrote: post #47
throwingcookies wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I am so confused by this social drama, I feel like I am getting too old for this.

It’s truly weird and unhinged the extent to which two rando Internet People are willing to grief each other.

Parasocialweb 2.0 I suppose.

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by throwingcookies »

JasonADrury wrote: post #75
ahhhhnoooo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have posted twice in four years. Once doing some digging into who runs archive today, and a second time to respond to a ddos attack. Writing about being ddos'd seems eminently reasonable. So if you elide that, you are talking about a single article in four years. It's genuinely nothing.

The purpose of a thing is what it does.

> The purpose of a thing is what it does.

What is the purpose of the DDoS JS in the archive website then? Not DDoS?

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by JasonADrury »

kay_o wrote: post #54
longislandguido wrote: post #41

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Breach of trust by a site whose unstated primary purpose is bypassing paywalls and ripping off content? 20 years ago during the P2P heyday this was assumed to come with the territory. Play with fire and you could get burned. If you walk into a seedy brothel in the developing world, your first thought should be "I might get drugged and robbed here" and not what you're going to type in the Yelp review later about their…

Given they are retroactively tampering with past archives it's not exactly trustworhy in the first place

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Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by JasonADrury »

henearkr wrote: post #73
PeterStuer wrote: post #57

Otoh, without archive.today a substantial % of HN posts would be unreadable for nearly all of the audience.

I doubt it. You may have mixed it up with archive.org.

I suggest you double-check that. Archive.today/archive.is is the one which bypasses paywalls and makes unreadable content readable, not archive.org

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by JasonADrury »

throwingcookies wrote: post #84
JasonADrury wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The purpose of a thing is what it does.

> The purpose of a thing is what it does. What is the purpose of the DDoS JS in the archive website then? Not DDoS?

I'm sure it's DDoS, just like the purpose of gyrovague.com is to attack archive.today

Easy stuff, no?

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by vachina »

drum55 wrote: post #79
JasonADrury wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Should providing a public service absolve all sins?

I know it's petty. But don't act surprised when you find your garbage strewn all over your lawn next morning after you flipped off your neighbor the fourth time.

Re: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2

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Post by vachina »

kay_o wrote: post #54
longislandguido wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Breach of trust by a site whose unstated primary purpose is bypassing paywalls and ripping off content? 20 years ago during the P2P heyday this was assumed to come with the territory. Play with fire and you could get burned. If you walk into a seedy brothel in the developing world, your first thought should be "I might get drugged and robbed here" and not what you're going to type in the Yelp review later about their…

Given they are retroactively tampering with past archives it's not exactly trustworhy in the first place

Proof?
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