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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: 0.406s | 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. boramalper ◴[21 Oct 24 09:57 UTC] No.41902442[source]▶
Is this open source or do you have any design docs? I love the idea and would love to learn more about it.
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2. stavros ◴[21 Oct 24 10:00 UTC] No.41902462[source]▶
The idea is that it'll be open source, I have a rough design doc here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qKgIjUTef-I-BLWjn4sEIbYo...

I'll write up a more detailed article on it, though, it'll be good to at least have the doc public somewhere.