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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by dokyun on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:32PM (#41898652)
The group that claimed to be responsible for the first hack was said to be Russian-based, anti-U.S., pro-Palestine, and their reasoning for the attack was because of IA's violation of copyright....

I think you should draw your own more informed conclusions, but it smells a lot like feds to me.

Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by MathMonkeyMan on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:28PM (#41899662)
What do Palestine, Russia, and the U.S. have to do with the Internet Archive? The Internet Archive is a supremely boring target politically.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by shiroiushi on Sunday October 20, 2024 @09:56PM (#41900070)
He's pointing out that it doesn't make any sense: why would someone pro-Russian and anti-US care about violating western IP? In reality, it's the opposite: Russia is happy to help with that because they think it helps weaken the west.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by small_scombrus on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:57PM (#41899792)
That's the point they're making. It's such a seeming non-sequitur that people are suspicious and coming up with fun theories.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by whywhywhywhy on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:15AM (#41902162)
> The Internet Archive is a supremely boring target politically.

I mean it's where we go to prove a politician said something after they deleted it or where a government changes the wording of something...

I'd argue it's one of the juicer political targets if you're actually wanting to do something.

Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by 71bw on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:51AM (#41902411)
>supremely boring target politically.

Oh how wrong you are.

There is nothing boring in a target that can be used to validate others' lies and potential hypocrisy, changes in their policies etc.

The wayback machine itself serves as a truly priceless way to go back through someone's public life.

Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by elihu on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:05AM (#41903240)
It seems plausible to me that someone is just trying to exacerbate political/social conflict. Russia has been known to do such things, and they often take multiple sides just to sow chaos. Self-identifying as Palestinian activists would be an effective way to get more people mad that otherwise wouldn't care.

This is also right before a major U.S. election, and that might not be a coincidence. Someone might be trying to get Trump elected by drawing attention to the Israel-Gaza conflict, a topic that isn't exactly a winning issue for Harris.

That's just one possibility of many though. I mean, might just be regular assholes that happen to also be pro-Palestinian. Or pro-Hamas, which isn't necessarily the same thing.

Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by steffanA on Monday October 21, 2024 @09:20AM (#41903885)
The people who DDoSed Internet Archive never claimed to be behind the breach. That was some media companies who misreported this.

The breach happened over a week before the DDoS attack, according to Troy Hunt.

Stop looking for conspiracy theories.