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• @vortexegg.com @vortexegg.com on bluesky

  One thing I find interesting about this story is the response from tech solutionists (to wit: “what if we implemented a new archiving app using tech stack xyz"), when none of the problems at play here are technical ones but social organizatinal ones.  [embedded post]

• @conspirator0 @conspirator0 on bluesky

  In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site.  —  I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below...  arstechn…

• @adambecker Adam Becker on bluesky

  This is wild.  Stop using archive.today and archive.is immediately.  They're altering their screenshots and running DDOS attacks based on personal grudges!  Remarkable reporting from @arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...  (as always, @archive.org is still great, love…

• @webbreacher.com Micah Hoffman on bluesky

  For all my #OSINT peeps, archive [dot] today has been DDOSing a blog and is using its visitors as unwilling participants in this attack.  Read about it here (arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...) and from this blog gyrovague.com.  —  And consider removing this archiving tool from you…

• @hpsvanessa Dr Vanessa on bluesky

  Yikes.  The idea of manipulated “archive” sites fills me with horror  —  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @md.ekstrandom.net Michael Ekstrand on bluesky

  yeah archive dot {today, is, whatever} is totally hosed and unreliable... if you've been using it, would be a good time to find an alternative.  Unfortunately, I don't know what that alternative is (besides Wayback Machine?). arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @kissane.myatproto.social Erin Kissane on bluesky

  The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is.  The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.  —  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• r/chaoticgood r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, removing 695,000 archive links, after the site was used to direct a DDoS attack against the Gyrovague blog …

• r/LinusTechTips r on reddit

  Next week WAN topic suggestion — Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

• r/skeptic r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

• r/wikipedia r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

• r/france r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

• r/GamePreservationists r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

• r/technews r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links |  If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

• r/technology r on reddit

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links |  If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

• @waxy.org @waxy.org on bluesky

  Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links: the anonymous creator used the archiving site to DDOS a blogger and tampered with screenshots to hide their identity https://arstechnica.com/tech- p...

• @werd.io Ben Werdmuller on bluesky

  The detail here about archive dot is and its other domains altering webpages because of a grudge is worth knowing.  Not to mention running a DDoS attack, obviously.  Yikes. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @davidgerard.co.uk @davidgerard.co.uk on bluesky

  i knew the archive.  today guy was weird but i didn't realise he was a frothing nutter arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...  annoying it's often the only practical option

• @dgoldsmith@mastodon.social Debbie Goldsmith on mastodon

  For those not seeing my boosts, another important article: archive.today (also archive.ph, archive.is, ...) are altering the pages they archive.  Read the whole thing.  —  (Note: archive.org is unrelated and is great!)  —  https://arstechnica.com/...