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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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492 points vladyslavfox | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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myself248 ◴[20 Oct 24 15:39 UTC] No.41896048[source]▶
I'd like to imagine a world where every lawyer, when their case is helped by a Wayback Machine snapshot of something, flips a few bucks to IA. They could afford a world-class admin team in no time flat.
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thaumasiotes ◴[20 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41896197[source]▶
That's a terrible solution. The Wayback Machine takes down their snapshots at the request of whoever controls the domain. That's not archival.

If the state of a webpage in the past matters to you, you need a record that won't cease to exist when your opposition asks it to. This is the concept behind perma.cc.

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1. speerer ◴[20 Oct 24 17:09 UTC] No.41896848[source]▶
That's correct, but only for present evidence - what about the past evidence, that you didn't know you needed until it was too late? IA is broad enough to cover the past five times out of ten.