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Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by yard2010 »

zymhan wrote: post #148
Aachen wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a strange thing to read on Hacker news. Isn't that description the definition of hack value? As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html Now, it depends what the "it" is referring to here, but so far all I've heard is about an alert() message saying the usernames will be sent to a breach alerting site. If they're doing it just for the heck of it, it's still costing a lot of people a lot of time tha…

It isn't "breaking into things" hackers. It's "whipping something together" hackers. Breaking into the Internet Archive's servers is like breaking into your public library. There's no honor to be had.

Imagine physically breaking into your local library for the lulz

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Post by hackernewds »

cortesoft wrote: post #297
testfrequency wrote: post #291

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hope…

Once you have been doxed, isn’t the cat kinda out of the bag at that point? Creeps already have the snapshots now, deleting them from IA is just closing the barn door after the livestock has already escaped.

Still worth deleting future instances. What's your point?

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Post by hackernewds »

testfrequency wrote: post #291

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hope…

Isn't the point of IA to retain information? How can you, without hypocrisy, love IA if you don't agree with it happening to you, that you benefit from happening to others. There's a conflict here.

Sucks to hear you are getting doxxed still

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Post by hackernewds »

swatcoder wrote: post #283
halJordan wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be even easier, you can just have Apple or Google hold your domain and provide mail.

That's not easier, that's the same but with a worse scale fit. If you need free, you need free. But if you can pay, you want to pay a vendor whose scale is such that you mean something to them while still being mature enough to rely on. This applies to pretty much everything, not just email. With Google and Apple, you service needs are overhead and with Google in particular, your value is entirely in them being able…

They mean getting a Gmail account

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Post by PostOnce »

numpad0 wrote: post #65
marviel wrote: post #55

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa... I found this reddit thread from /r/DataHoarder about backing up the internet archive particularly interesting, given the circumstances

50 PB * $0.014/GB = $0.7M. $0.014/GB is from[1], bare drive cost without chassis, power, or redundancy. 1: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

IA stores lots of redundant stuff in 5 file formats and none of them are particularly well-compressed, I think. There are (big) savings to be had, but maybe figuring that out (software dev and compute time) isn't worth it?

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Post by jfengel »

arresin wrote: post #302
testfrequency wrote: post #291

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hope…

Can I ask why they're trying to dox you? I have literally never inspired this kind of passion on the internet--and I'm usually pretty blunt. I'm genuinely curious what it takes.

Attacks like that tend to have little to do with bluntness. They occur when you've touched something they consider to be theirs, and you are not entitled to. Usually that's some matter of group identity, where they feel the need to show off for each other just how angry they are at you.

It has less to do with what you say or how you say it, but with who you are.

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Post by MatthiasPortzel »

xyst wrote: post #279
suikun wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you elaborate why it’s a no-go for you? Just curious for my own sake

decentralization. I don’t want these massive entities (Google, MS, CF) controlling my data.

Cloudflare isn't even that big. They're 1/100th the size of Google or MS. They're not even the biggest CDN—Akamai has twice the revenue, but it depends on what you measure. Cloudflare gets brought up disproportionately often on HN because they have generous free tiers and cater to indie hackers more. So it feels a little ironic that they're perceived as "the big dog" by the indie hackers.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

testfrequency wrote: post #291

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hope…

Pretty sure you own the copyright of your social media postings, so DMCA claim them.

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Post by echelon »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #319
testfrequency wrote: post #291

I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now. On one hand, I love IA On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII. It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it. A small part of me hope…

Pretty sure you own the copyright of your social media postings, so DMCA claim them.

That's why I'm told ezboard as a whole was removed from the index (sadly).

You probably can do this, OP.

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