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Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"

by pushedx on 10/16/24, 12:33 AM with 34 comments

  • by Apocryphon on 10/16/24, 4:55 AM

    The timing of Google getting rid of the Google Cache couldn't be even worse with these ongoing DDOS attacks on and necessary hardening of the Internet Archive. Wonder what kind of twisty narrative one could posit about why this is happening?

  • by jlund-molfese on 10/16/24, 1:33 AM

  • by userbinator on 10/16/24, 4:01 AM

    This incident brings up a good point: Who archives the archives?

  • by timonoko on 10/17/24, 1:49 AM

    What we really need right now is "black hole" of information. A place where you can push stuff, but retrieving is impossible until that time when ironclad legitimation can be automated.

    Insane that only examples of me myself ever doing anything is in printed copies from 1970's. In National Archives where some aunties still believe that Internet is just a passing fad.

  • by keepamovin on 10/16/24, 3:12 AM

    how vulnerable is IA to some malicious actor who wanted to rewrite history or run an 'information cleansing' operation?

    - take offline

    - purge 'problematic' archives

    - return to service

    is that impossible? are there redundancies to make this very hard?

  • by ChrisArchitect on 10/16/24, 2:40 AM

  • by jaredb3 on 10/17/24, 12:41 AM

    Fix the Internet Archive to be back online.

  • by conormarcellus on 10/16/24, 8:14 PM

    internet archive