GrumpyRabbit on Nostr: _Hacking of Internet Archive led to a “black hole” of archiving webpages before ...
_Hacking of Internet Archive led to a “black hole” of archiving webpages before they were changed or removed; could this have been the aim?_
FTA: The Internet Archive, a service that chronicles the life of the Internet, was hit with a massive hacking attack on 8 October 2024, leading to a read-only service.
For three weeks, webpages from the internet were not archived. And so, there is a “black hole” in the Archive’s history, affecting researchers’ ability to compare past with future content, making it difficult to verify and document changing definitions and statements.
The attack on the Internet Archive came against a backdrop of instances of censorship growing, with mainstream social media becoming more aggressive in deleting content. Coincidence?
https://expose-news.com/2024/11/09/hacking-of-internet-archive-led-to-a-black-hole/
FTA: The Internet Archive, a service that chronicles the life of the Internet, was hit with a massive hacking attack on 8 October 2024, leading to a read-only service.
For three weeks, webpages from the internet were not archived. And so, there is a “black hole” in the Archive’s history, affecting researchers’ ability to compare past with future content, making it difficult to verify and document changing definitions and statements.
The attack on the Internet Archive came against a backdrop of instances of censorship growing, with mainstream social media becoming more aggressive in deleting content. Coincidence?
https://expose-news.com/2024/11/09/hacking-of-internet-archive-led-to-a-black-hole/