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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: 0.407s | 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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stavros ◴[21 Oct 24 03:11 UTC] No.41900368[source]▶
I designed a system where you could say "donate this spare 2 TB of my disk space to the Internet Archive" and the IA would push 2 TB of data to you. This system also has the property that it can be reconstructed if the IA (or whatever provider) goes away.

Unfortunately, when I talked to a few archival teams (including the IA) about whether they'd be interested in using it, I either got no response or a negative one.

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1. 4gotunameagain ◴[21 Oct 24 05:38 UTC] No.41900972[source]▶
Why reinvent the wheel ?

There are so many proven distributed archiving systems, a lot of which are mentioned in these comments.

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2. stavros ◴[21 Oct 24 09:44 UTC] No.41902360[source]▶
What system of these allows me to donate a bunch of disk space to a provider of my choosing, without thinking about it afterwards?