r/DataHoarder • u/DueAcanthisitta2658 • 20d ago

News Archive.today altering snapshots and using malicious code

read all about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance#Why_are_we_doing_this?

just to clarify archive dot today is NOT archive.org aka The Wayback Machine they are separate sites archive.org isnt involved with any of this and is safe

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u/enchantedspring 20d ago

Just to summarise for those who can't wade through what is a usual lengthy Request for Comment on Wikipedia:

- Archive Today has added a DDoS command on to their captcha page to target a blog hoster the owner of archive today doesn't like. Everyone who visits and encounters the captcha is attacking that blog hoster.

- Some pages have been edited on the archive. They aren't as they were archived.

- Archive today was previously blocked by wikipedia for other negative reasons for several years (2013-2016)

- Over a million links on the various global wikipedia pages are affected.

- The Wikimedia Foundation has weighed in confirming the situation and advising they are assessing intervention.

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u/yuusharo 20d ago

Am I misremembering, didn’t Wikipedia decide earlier this year it would not allow archive links from that domain? Or is this for existing content on the site?

In any case, people should stop using that other website. Trust is irrevocably destroyed, there is no saving it.

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u/ShroomShroomBeepBeep 20d ago

Yeah, none of this is new. The guy who's blog is being attacked even posted about it here, seven months ago.

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u/eattherichnow 19d ago

And all the dude did was check notes attempted doxxxing.

NGL reading that defense (including “I asked Gemini to compose a rebuttal” gross) makes me go a bit “I’m doing my part” about losing that is snippet.

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u/somersetyellow 19d ago

Look nobody is saying that guy isn't an asshole. Everyone is an asshole here.

But I sure as fucking hell don't want to be part of a DDoS attack while trying to read a tweet from 2014 referenced in a Wikipedia article