this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
116 points (96.8% liked)

Technology

59116 readers
2971 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
116
Internet Archive Services Update. (blog.archive.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Dot@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner.

Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.

Please note that these services will have limited availability as we continue maintenance.

Hackers disclosed archive.org email and encrypted passwords to a transparency website, and also sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system.

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To be clear, the email thing was 100% the IA's fault, much as I love their work. BleepingComputer warned them something like two weeks in advance.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yeah, it's a weird blunder to not have rotated keys after being breached. I'm not familiar with how the org works but it sounds like they don't have a dedicated security guy, which is weird for something of that size.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is internet archive that big? i would imagine you could run it successfully with a dozen or so people tbh

[–] simple@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's big. According to Wikipedia they gained 30.5 million dollars in 2022 and have almost 170 employees - not mentioning probably hundreds of other volunteers. It sounds simple in concept but storing petabytes of data safely and maintaining complex software and hardware for it is impressive. That's why there aren't really any alternatives to it.

They're also much bigger than just the wayback machine, they have multiple projects like OpenLibrary which is a goodreads alternative and scans books to read online. The IA is also under constant legal fire for archiving copyrighted materials so I bet they spent millions of dollars on that alone.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It isn't. Nonprofits don't have a ton of money, and implementing strong security controls takes money and time away from other activities. Small businesses have a lot of trouble for the same reason.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean have I been pwned warned them(troy), right?

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had no idea how much I enjoyed LibreVox (which - at least for the things I am interested in - goes to archive.org for downloads) and OpenLibrary until I couldn't access them. This morning, still no go on either.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had no idea I even relied on them until they were down. My favorite podcast hosts through them and I had to find a workaround.