Posted on 10/13/2024 12:46:24 PM PDT by daniel1212
A Pro-Palestinian hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for downing the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine and compromising user data.
The group called SN_BLACKMETA has taken responsibility for the hack on X and Telegram.
"They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of 'Israel,'" the group said....
SN_BLACKMETA seems to have a real beef with the Archive. It also claimed responsibility for a six-day DDoS attack on the Archive in May.. and has claimed responsibility for several other attacks
While I am sure most Internet content is not fit or worth saving, yet the Internet Archive can be an invaluable source for worthy content that has dis-appeared. Which i find is too often the case for good content. For one thing, I rely on it for some stats from the CDC Negative-effects-of-homosexual relations which the CDC deleted.
I use a Firefox extension to look up 404 links on Internet Archive.
From the BBC:
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished...Researchers found the problem is more acute the older a web page is: 38% of web pages that Pew tried to access that existed in 2013 no longer function.
A few other organisations, big and small, work on similar projects. The US Library of Congress, for example, preserves government websites, the sites of congressmembers and a collection of US news sites. The Library of Congress also preserved a copy of every single tweet sent since the founding of Twitter (now known as X), until the project was shut down in 2017. Other governments run their own initiatives. The UK Web Archive conducts an annual crawl of websites with .UK domain names, capturing a snapshot of the British internet at least once a year. In 2022, band of volunteers to set out to save the Ukrainian internet as it was hit by Russian cyberattacks.- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240912-the-archivists-battling-to-save-the-internet
I think it’s the deep state, erasing history. No doubt politically sensitive information exposing them has ‘disappeared.’
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