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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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492 points vladyslavfox | 3 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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WarOnPrivacy ◴[20 Oct 24 18:00 UTC] No.41897206[source]▶
> nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

Typically because most people who have the upload, don't know that they can. And if they come to the notion on their own, they won't know how.

If they put the notion to a search engine, the keywords they come up with probably don't return the needed ELI5 page.

As in: How do I [?] for the Internet Archive?, most folks won't know what [?] needs to be.

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TZubiri ◴[20 Oct 24 18:16 UTC] No.41897342[source]▶
This is literally torrents. Just give up
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briandear ◴[20 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41897746[source]▶
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
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1. tourmalinetaco ◴[20 Oct 24 22:23 UTC] No.41898984{4}[source]▶
Torrents have a bad reputation due to malicious executables, I have never met someone who genuinely saw piracy as stealing, only as dangerous. In fact, stealing as a definition cannot cover digital piracy, as stealing is to take something away, and to take is to possess something physically. The correct term is copying, because you are duplicating files. And that’s not even getting into the cultural protection piracy affords in today’s DRM and license-filled world.
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2. master-lincoln ◴[21 Oct 24 11:51 UTC] No.41903131[source]▶
What does this have to do with torrents? If you get an executable from the internet it is widely known not to execute it if not trusted. You can get malicious executables from websites too.

If this is what people think we need to work on education...

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3. tourmalinetaco ◴[21 Oct 24 18:10 UTC] No.41906742[source]▶
Piracy also is not unique to torrents, and yet that was what GP used.

The average person, in my experience, can barely work a non-cellphone filesystem and actively stresses when a terminal is in front of them, especially for a brief moment. Education went out the window a decade ago.