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Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by acaiblue44 »

mdaniel wrote: post #539
acaiblue44 wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a new user, is this a good time to plug my project that hopes to put 200 GB on a piece of paper? https://sourceforge.net/u/acaiblue44/blog/2024/09/gigapaper0...

> I learned that I can't use file i/o in a function outside the main, which is an unspoken rule that no tutorial elucidated. is for sure not true, that would be crazypants

I tried for 6 weeks. Eventually, it just stops functioning. The same program and arguments spits out "segmentation fault" 33% of the time I run it, with the other 67% working perfectly. The only way I could explain it was that it was in a function outside the main, because when I put the exact same code in the main, compiled and ran, it worked.

I have no other explanation. At some point, having too many nested loops and variables causes segmentation faults, whereas less complex code functioned without error. I needed to have certain things performed, and it only functioned in the main.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by useless_foghorn »

phantomathkg wrote: post #362
buildsjets wrote: post #341

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Not the author but yes, I do. It’s trivially easy so why not?

Curious, how trivially easy is that?

I use Bitwarden coupled with AnonAddy (0) for simple and free on demand email alias generation.

0. https://bitwarden.com/help/generator/#username-types

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by mrguyorama »

markus_zhang wrote: post #516
bigiain wrote: post #209

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I'd probably believe attribution to either Israel or the MPA with only a little evidence. (I still haven't forgiven Sony for the album on CD I bought with a rootkit on it...)

Just curious why Israel? MPA is reasonable though... And a rootkit on CD? Interesting...

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

The bad old days before music companies just gave up and started selling un-DRMd mp3 files, and then Spotify solved THAT problem for them.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by hunter2_ »

the_gorilla wrote: post #556
harywilke wrote: post #498

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We used to get these big books delivered to our doorsteps that had your name, your address and your personal phone number. You could pay to opt out.

If I published a list of all name and addresses, that's still different than "here is harywikle's full name and address". I imagine you wouldn't be too pleased?

The link between online identity and offline identity is a sacred barrier. And I'm not sure that archive.org breached that particular barrier.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by the_gorilla »

hunter2_ wrote: post #574
the_gorilla wrote: post #556

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If I published a list of all name and addresses, that's still different than "here is harywikle's full name and address". I imagine you wouldn't be too pleased?

The link between online identity and offline identity is a sacred barrier. And I'm not sure that archive.org breached that particular barrier.

That's the issue I take with the "phonebook" defense. It justifies doxing people by collecting and connecting publicly available information online. All the information is out there, it's all on a phone book, your email was published online, and so on, but the end result is clearly bad so something in the process should be handled more carefully.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by mrguyorama »

tomrod wrote: post #34

That's a shame. We need not one but many internet archives. Just one and we will repeat the outcome of the Library of Alexandria.

Then you have to write legislation in multiple countries to do so, including large carveouts in DMCA and copyright law.

"Goodwill and donations" will never be robust against an entire industry that makes profit off of artificial digital scarcity.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by seanvelasco »

aa-jv wrote: post #501
account42 wrote: post #471

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Sounds more like they hacked it for the lulz and then put up the tweets for even more lulz. Attacking the IA to support palestine is about as nonsensical as you can get.

There is a lot of embarassing pro-Zionist material archived on IA, but scrubbed elsewhere from the Internet: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=zionist... So just to play devils advocate, since Zionism is being critically received all across the Internet - it is more likely that IA was attacked in order to censor those materials, and then a sockpuppet was created to shift the blame to pro-palestinia…

i hate how Zionism has become a bad word, like it's some world domination conspiracy theory. as a Zionist myself, it's not at all likely that IA was attacked to take down Zionist-related material as these material are neither embarrassing nor damaging to Israel. on the contrary, I would like for them to stay up and be archived for all eternity.

what is more likely is that these pro-Palestinian hacktivists are once more engaging in misplaced activism, targeting those they perceive as tied to Israel, regardless of whether those targets have any direct connection. just see the boycott movements... they're boycotting Gal Gadot, McDonalds, and Starbucks

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by remix2000 »

mdaniel wrote: post #539
acaiblue44 wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a new user, is this a good time to plug my project that hopes to put 200 GB on a piece of paper? https://sourceforge.net/u/acaiblue44/blog/2024/09/gigapaper0...

> I learned that I can't use file i/o in a function outside the main, which is an unspoken rule that no tutorial elucidated. is for sure not true, that would be crazypants

It's obviously just skill issue

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by aguaviva »

aa-jv wrote: post #527
RamRodification wrote: post #512

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Is there more embarrassing pro-Zionist material on IA than there is embarrassing pro-Palestine (for lack of a better term for whatever "the opposite" is) material?

I would not know a mathematically accurate response to this question - but I did see a lot of references to embarrassing pro-Zionist (i.e. historically racist, colonialist, pro-Zionist) materials at the IA in the last week in various other forums, which are now no longer able to discuss the materials as they are unavailable. If there is "pro-Palestinian" materials at the IA, I would imagine it being based on material…

Actually, there's plenty of obnoxious "pro-Palestinian" material out there as well, glorifying Operation al-Aqsa Flood, "martyrs" from other random attacks on civilians, not to mention the propaganda that there's no such thing as "Israeli civilian" anyway, and so forth. There's no need to go looking for it on the IA because they're quite proud of this stuff and are churning it out constantly. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41692193

BTW I'm a non-Zionist and strongly opposed to the occupation, etc. So please don't make any assumptions that I'm a hasbarist coming at you with their usual stuff. The depressingly tragic fact of this conflict is that there are legions of assholes and extremely naive, easily manipulated people on all sides.

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by [deleted] »

ianhawes wrote: post #353
richbell wrote: post #203

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If Troy authenticates the data, they can use that as an 'endorsement' when trying to sell it.

This. Typically HIBP attribution includes the email of the "submitter". Various data aggregators will contact them and buy the stolen data. Everybody wins* . * Exceptions apply.

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