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

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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 walletdrainer »

croes wrote: post #127
gyrovague-com wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jani here. What you describe as "doxxing" consisted of a) a whois lookup for archive.is and b) linking to a StackExchange post from 2020 called "Who owns archive.today" [1]. There is literally no new information about the site's owner in the post, all names have been dug up before and are clearly aliases, and the post states as much. [1] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/who-owns-...

Isn’t doxxing most of the time just collecting data from multiple public sources and connect them?

Yes, that is exactly what “doxing” almost always refers to. It’s a very disingenuous response.

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

#132

Post by sgbeal »

arvid-lind wrote: post #109
sgbeal wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. ... TIL, thank you. Time to go tweak my pi-hole server...

I'm just curious, given all the other options that respect your privacy and don't put data collection at the center of their business model, why do you use Cloudflare on your pi-hole?

> why do you use Cloudflare on your pi-hole?

Because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." i'm not one of those users who want to endlessly tweak their ad blocker. i want to set it up, clicking as few checkboxes as necessary to get it going, and then leave it. However, (now) knowing that Cloudflare filters different only each of their servers, i'm incentivized to go tweak a number in the config (as opposed to researching the pros and cons of every possible provider, a detail i truly have no interest in pursuing).

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

#133

Post by nom »

daymanstep wrote: post #115
arvid-lind wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just curious, given all the other options that respect your privacy and don't put data collection at the center of their business model, why do you use Cloudflare on your pi-hole?

Which options respect your privacy?

quad9

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

#134

Post by walletdrainer »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #120
charcircuit wrote: post #77

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The site commits copyright infringement by showing you content it doesn't have the rights for. This is not the kind of site to go on about morals for. >the site has a bad reputation Not compared to archive.org. archive.is has a much better track record.

I'm not sure whether you're making a joke or confusing the two websites.

You’re just not at all familiar with the subject.

Archive.org is awful. It allows site owners and random third parties to edit old archived pages.

Archive.today does not.

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

#135

Post by TZubiri »

sgbeal wrote: post #107
Kwpolska wrote: post #103

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1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. If you want an unfiltered DNS, use 1.1.1.1 - which resolves archive.today just fine, although archive.today itself refuses to work on Cloudlfare DNS.

> 1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. ... TIL, thank you. Time to go tweak my pi-hole server...

Today we are one of the lucky 10k

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

#136

Post by TZubiri »

arvid-lind wrote: post #109
sgbeal wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. ... TIL, thank you. Time to go tweak my pi-hole server...

I'm just curious, given all the other options that respect your privacy and don't put data collection at the center of their business model, why do you use Cloudflare on your pi-hole?

what is the vector here? dns traffic is practically anonymous, there would have to be some very specific and purposeful trickery going on to link dns traffic to an identity. It sounds like something more hypothetical than a tangible threat model

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

#137

Post by tomalbrc »

gyrovague-com wrote: post #110
JasonADrury wrote: post #78

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Jani Patokallio who runs gyrovague.com published a blog post attempting to dox the owner of archive.today. Jani justifies his doxing as follows "I found it curious that we know so little about this widely-used service, so I dug into it" [1] Archive.today on the other hand is a charitable archival project offered to the public for free. The operator of Archive.today risks significant legal liability, but still offers…

Jani here. What you describe as "doxxing" consisted of a) a whois lookup for archive.is and b) linking to a StackExchange post from 2020 called "Who owns archive.today" [1]. There is literally no new information about the site's owner in the post, all names have been dug up before and are clearly aliases, and the post states as much. [1] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/who-owns-...

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

#138

Post by surgical_fire »

saaaaaam wrote: post #116
surgical_fire wrote: post #112

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I have no idea why anyone would use Cloudflare DNS, much less trust their more filtered versions.

I use cloudflare DNS because it’s faster. But should I worry, having read your comment? What is the downside to using it? What would you recommend instead?

Quad9.

Many years ago I used Cloudflare, and more than once I had issues with them blocking websites I wanted to access.

I absolutely despise that. I want my DNS to resolve domain names, nothing else.

For blocking things I have Pi-Hole, which is under my control for that reason. I can blacklist or whitelist addresses to my needs, not to the whims of a corporation that wants to play gatekeeper to what I can browse.

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