Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer...
by dgxyz on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:44AM
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I'm wondering if Jani is possibly going to walk into the wrong party here and get burned. I did some public archival stuff about a decade ago and it was state sponsored and for the intelligence community. I'm not suggesting this is but it'll be very much of interest to competing intelligence services as it's an information control point. None of those are the sort of people you start pissing off by sticking your dick in it. FBI is likely just one of the actors here.
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Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer...
by derefr on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:53AM
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You seem the right person to ask about this: why don’t we see any public web archivers operated by individuals or organizations based in countries that aren’t big fans of aiding or listening to American intelligence?
Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer...
by dgxyz on Sunday March 22, 2026 @07:59AM
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Well they certainly do exist. However they tend not to even get noticed because the mindset and momentum behind everything is America-centric.
Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer...
by echoangle on Sunday March 22, 2026 @06:00PM
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Why would stuff for the intelligence community be made public? Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to keep it private?
Re:Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer...
by pamcake on Sunday March 22, 2026 @06:48PM
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They already mentioned info control. Also visitor and flow data prob juicier than the archives themselves for site like .today.
Oh, and a great injection point of malware, which can be more sophisticated and selective than the DDoS under discussion. Hard to come up with a more efficient browser-0day deployment pipeline if youre flying under radar and want to be able to target arbitrary individuals.