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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: 0.012s | 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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1. scirob ◴[21 Oct 24 09:42 UTC] No.41902340[source]▶
LigGen / SciHub are model citizens in this regard. Use the best tech for the job . Torrents + IPFS + simple http mirrors all over . While their data is big its not as big as Archive.org https://libgen.is/repository_torrent/ so I guess one still needs the funding to go to these decentralized nodes and they are there mostly for resiliancy
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2. TZubiri ◴[21 Oct 24 14:10 UTC] No.41904365[source]▶
If so, why do they keep jumping from one dubious domain and TLD from another?
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3. skeaker ◴[21 Oct 24 18:56 UTC] No.41907204[source]▶
That's mentioned in the comment you're replying to as "simple HTTP mirrors." Those are vulnerable to takedowns but are kept up for the sake of easy accessibility to the public that doesn't know how to access any of the other options. Their availability has no real bearing on the availability of the other options beyond the tech savviness of the general public.