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Archive.today used vistor's browsers to DDoS, and modified archive contents

• crumpled 5mo ago
  I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Wikipedia has decided to deprecate archive.today links because the site has been observed using the browsers of visitors to conduct a DDOS attack on the blog of an individual. Perhaps more troubling, archive.today modified archived versions of articles to insert the individuals name into the context of the articles.
  • altairprime 5mo ago
    Previously, nearly a thousand comments across several stories: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=archive.today https://hn.algolia.com/?q=archive.today
• mtmail 5mo ago
  related "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" "I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740