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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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492 points vladyslavfox | 1 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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rolandog ◴[21 Oct 24 15:17 UTC] No.41905113[source]▶
Perhaps a naïve question, but hasn't this problem been solved by the FreeNet Project (now HyphaNet) [0]? (the re-write — current FreeNet — was previously called Locutus, IIRC [1]).

Side note: As an outsider, and someone who hasn't tried either version of FreeNet in more than almost 2 decades, was this kind of a schism like the Python 2 vs. Python 3 kerfuffle? Is there more to it?

[0]: https://www.hyphanet.org/

[1]: https://freenet.org/

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1. sanity ◴[21 Oct 24 19:52 UTC] No.41907837[source]▶
Hi, Freenet's FAQ explains the renaming/rebranding here: [1]

Neither version of Freenet is designed for long-term archiving of large amounts of data so it probably isn't ideally suited to replacing archive.org, but we are planning to build decentralized alternatives to services like wikipedia on top of Freenet.

[1] https://freenet.org/faq/#why-was-freenet-rearchitected-and-r...