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The world’s largest #InternetArchive is under siege — & fighting back
There are few organizations dedicated to the gargantuan task of preserving the vast, ever-shifting record of human activity that is the #internet. The largest such record belongs to a #nonprofit based in an old church in San Francisco that operates on a smaller annual budget than the DC Public Library.
It is currently under siege.
#tech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/18/internet-archive-hack-wayback/
#Hackers struck the #InternetArchive last week, leaking the information of millions of users & defacing it with a message taunting the #nonprofit’s website for running on a shoestring budget. To prevent further leaks, the #Internet Archive’s team took the site, including its popular #WaybackMachine, offline. It’s the first time in its almost 30-yr history that it has suffered an outage of longer than a few hrs, founder Brewster Kahle told WaPo. Most of the site remains offline a wk later.
The #cyberattack kicked off a frenzied race to restore access to the #InternetArchive & the >900 billion webpages it preserves on the #WaybackMachine, its archival service. It was also a rude awakening. To Kahle, that hackers would set their sights on a free repository of digital history, seemingly without an agenda or a ransom, is hard to imagine.
@Nonilex Makes total sense if the goal is to own the past present and future by owning all the info/history thereof
(Think 1984 style here... these people aren't hitting this place for the lolz) 