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>No statement, no idea, no demands. A special place in Hell… I mean... would it be better if the hackers had asked for money or did it to protest global warming or something?
"Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at last it's an ethos ."
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Out of curiosity, do you use a unique email address for every single service?
Yes, without exception. I want to know who is leaking/selling my address, and usually stop doing business with those who do. It also makes filtering really easy. People sometimes have strange reactions when I verbally give them an email address with their company name in it, especially when I'm a new customer. All you need is a domain and an email provider that allows catch-all addresses, both of which are easy and c…
Does IA store anything sensitive for any users?p physical addresses, credit cards, etc?
Just in terms of privacy, it's worth noting that anyone who has uploaded something on IA already has their email address publicly viewable. This isn't something that commonly known (even judging by comments here) but in the publicly viewable metadata of every upload it contains the uploader's IA account email address. So from a security perspective it's bad but from a privacy perspective a lot of users probably weren…
This is bad enough. This alone is a privacy bug/data leak. Theoretically, someone could scrape the pages and compile a list of exposed email addresses.
I laughed. Oh no! Anyways…
The people interested in identity theft are probably too busy figuring out what to do with all the SSNs they stole (not from this breach, but from the annual catastrophic breach of a credit bureau or government repository).
And the people who want your email probably already got it from one of the hundreds of other services you have to create an account for now.
I’m not really sure if there are circumstances where donating to the internet archive could be held against you and lead to persecution. Maybe in certain Luddite communities? The Amish? But then, how would they know…
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Just a reminder that AI tried pivoting to much more clear-cut legitimate piracy, presumably because they got bored or something, and certainly put ‘donations’ toward that effort. IA is an incredibly valuable resource, but let’s not put them on a pedestal.
What's "legitimate piracy"? As a reminder, the scheme was designed to work exactly like typical lending libraries. Publishers were unable to show any harm, and the only evidence available proved they actually benefited from better sales thanks to the Internet Archive. Authors were clearly benefited. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second-circuit-says-libr... But I agree, no need to put them on a pedestal. Nobody…
Wasn't the issue precisely that they removed that limitation and then never added it again?
Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!
Jokes on them... I'm already on HIBP countless of times...
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This raises an interesting question: should email addresses be private? Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts. (Aside: Before spam filters were quite good, it was typical to avoid scraping of addresses by mild obfuscation, but I think those days are gone, and this is distinct from privacy anyway.) If someone wants to upload and never be found out, then t…
There is software which is intended to e.g. locate the GitHub profiles of people working at companies, then scrape all public repositories they've contributed to for their email address and the emails of their coworkers - to enable targeted advertising to those individuals. Very common in enterprise sales. With ChatGPT, this can be extended to create emails that look very personal - as if someone has followed all of…
shit, now i don't feel like sending e-mails to people i'm actually interested in
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It does work, when you don't notice it. We need sane limits and permanent seeders. This is why so many regular people get hit with ISP notices, they don't know they've seeded Captain America for the last six months every time they started their PC.
Yup. If browsers built in support for magnet links and (on desktop) defaulted to seeding with some capped bandwidth then a lot of centralized hosting platforms would become unnecessary.
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Out of curiosity, do you use a unique email address for every single service?
Yes, without exception. I want to know who is leaking/selling my address, and usually stop doing business with those who do. It also makes filtering really easy. People sometimes have strange reactions when I verbally give them an email address with their company name in it, especially when I'm a new customer. All you need is a domain and an email provider that allows catch-all addresses, both of which are easy and c…