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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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492 points vladyslavfox | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.603s | source
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trompetenaccoun ◴[20 Oct 24 15:33 UTC] No.41895988[source]▶
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
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jdiff ◴[20 Oct 24 16:19 UTC] No.41896411[source]▶
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.

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immibis ◴[20 Oct 24 16:47 UTC] No.41896653[source]▶
Keep in mind the IA archives a lot of garbage. If it could be more focused it would be more likely to work.
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1. Spooky23 ◴[20 Oct 24 19:53 UTC] No.41898025[source]▶
Archives generally purposefully don’t have a strong editorial streak. My trash is your treasure.
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2. immibis ◴[21 Oct 24 11:31 UTC] No.41902996[source]▶
They have to if they don't want to use infinite space.