It’s incredibly sad to see threat actors attack something as altruistic as an internet library. Truly demoralizing to see such degeneracy.
Blame bad leadership.
Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
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This is literally torrents. Just give up
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
Is there any form of torrent where you can do a full text search? That, to me, is the more important problem with torrents.
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#113Does anyone know who is targeting the Internet Archive, and why? I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.
Is it sophisticated if IA leaves the door wide open? I blame shit leadership.
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Yes, it's a good point. Though they could take that money and reward people for hosting the data as well, couldn't they? They don't have to be in charge of hosting.
Yes, they could, that's not much different than a single company distributing the archive to multiple storage centers though. My original comment was about it being more cost effective for a single company to do that than coordinating with a bunch of disjoint entities.
Our digital memory shouldn't be in the hands of a small number of organizations in my view. You're right about cost effectiveness. There are pros and cons to both but it's not just external threats that have to be considered.
History has always gotten rewritten throughout time. If you have a giant library it's easier for bad actors to gain influence and alter certain books, or remove them. This isn't just theoretical, under external pressure IA has already removed sites from its archive for copyright and political reasons.
There are also threats that are generally not even considered because they happen with rare frequency, but when they happen they're devastating. The library of Alexandria was burned by Julius Caesar during a war. Likewise, if all your servers are in one country that geographic risk, they can get destroyed in the event of a war or such. No one expects this to happen today in the US, but archives should be robust long term, for decades, ideally even centuries.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is literally torrents. Just give up
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
Give it a good reputation then.
What are some legal torrent trackers?
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This seems to get brought at least once in the comments for every one of these articles that pops up. The IA has tried distributing their stores, but nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.
Keep in mind the IA archives a lot of garbage. If it could be more focused it would be more likely to work.
Archives generally purposefully don’t have a strong editorial streak. My trash is your treasure.
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This seems to get brought at least once in the comments for every one of these articles that pops up. The IA has tried distributing their stores, but nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.
Perhaps one idea is to let people choose what they want to protect. This way people wanting to support it can have their mission.
You already can, they have torrents for everything.