FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site

People who steal from Americans get pardons... archive.is gets the the Feds on them.

The current administration would be a good joke if it wasn't real.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826

FWIW circumventing various paywalls is probably the bad thing archive.is is being investigated for, not the archiving bit.

>Ars inventing their own colour here. This is simply not true.

What are you talking about? Right at the top of the subpoena it literally says in bold and all caps, and I quote:

>YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFNITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.

Regardless of this situation I actually think that websites like Archive and TWBM should be fully transparent.

A very large partition of citations in Wikipedia for example relies on them. Most of the pages that cite archived copies do so because the live version is no longer available I would like to have some assurances that archive.is and the likes are not altering their content in any way over time.

Unironically content sensitive hashing of archival pages might be one of the few use cases where something like a blockchain might actually be useful for.