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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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509 points vladyslavfox | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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sirolimus ◴[20 Oct 24 17:23 UTC] No.41896949[source]▶
It’s incredibly sad to see threat actors attack something as altruistic as an internet library. Truly demoralizing to see such degeneracy.
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A4ET8a8uTh0 ◴[20 Oct 24 20:44 UTC] No.41898305[source]▶
Not defending attacker, because I see IA as common good. That said one of the messages from this particular instance reads almost as if they were trying to help by pointing out issues that IA clearly missed:

"Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it'd be someone else."

I am starting to wonder if the chorus of 'maybe one org should not be responsible for all this; it is genuinely too important' has a point.

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1. tylerchilds ◴[22 Oct 24 12:17 UTC] No.41913512[source]▶
the archive would likely agree with you and is in support of supporting the proliferation of archives. imo, their goal was never to be a central hub, but very few others have showed up to do archival in parallel.