Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now | Fireship (4:21)
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was hit by hackers recently with DDoS attacks, a data breach, and vandalism on its website. Over 31 million accounts were compromised and the Wayback Machine has been temporarily taken offline.
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Fecking assholes... probably hired by publishers and news outlets...
There may be one or two state sponsored groups.
(Can't have archives of atrocities now can we)
Has nothing to do with the upcoming US election
@TehBamski While it's hackers doing the job, someone clearly paid them, so the title should he "Governments/Agencies are destroying the internet's history book right now"
Please expand, what do you know about the motives?
@threeganzi We can only speculate for now.
The timezone of the attack suggests it has been started by russians, while in the video the Arabic subs go from left to right, instead of from right to left.
The "pro-palestinian" thing looks like a way to misguide towards the real intentions.
Removing parts of internet that are dangerous for oligarchs/dictators sounds about right, especially if you need to remove specific news.
The timing is also suspicious, US elections and Putin losing credibility.
Sure, those are probably reasonable speculations, but your suggested title was very absolute. Hence I was wondering if you had more concrete reasons to suggest that title.
Sounds like some kind of decentralized peer system might be a solution...I don't want to say blockchain but it might have a useful use case here
Itβs called FileCoin and theyβre already on it
Why does it have to have coin in the name. Why do they need value
Running file servers isnβt free, you gotta incentivize participation somehow
this is the first coin since gridcoin that seems to actually have a useful purpose.
I love when he threatens the "hackers" at the end haha
crackers!!!