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- toothpicks ( @toothpicks@beehaw.org ) 2•3 hours ago
You sunk my battleship
- Eggyhead ( @Eggyhead@fedia.io ) 13•10 hours ago
I’m inclined to think some corporate entity is somehow tied to this based on nothing but my gut.
- Skull giver ( @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ) 3•10 hours ago
No manager is willing to sign off on the risk of jail time for something like this.
They’re probably a bunch of dumb teenagers trying to make a splash. Professionals would’ve sold the data without informing anyone.
- Muffi ( @Muffi@programming.dev ) 7•8 hours ago
Managers sign off on worse and more risky decisions all the time. They just know when to not leave a paper trail.
- Badabinski ( @Badabinski@kbin.earth ) 66•17 hours ago
Fuckers. I don’t know why you’d want to hack the IA, but they’re dicks for doing so. I’m gonna throw some of my spondulix to the IA, and I’d encourage others to do so.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English62•16 hours ago
Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant.
TIL
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English8•12 hours ago
Spondulix
That’s an odd name. I’d have called them dollarydoos.
- OuterRem ( @OuterRem@lemmy.ml ) 16•15 hours ago
Not all heroes wear capes. Thanks Otter.
- HiDiddlyDoodlyHo ( @HiDiddlyDoodlyHo@beehaw.org ) English64•12 hours ago
What kind of people target the Internet Archive? I don’t have an X account so does anyone know what the hackers’ mission statement is?
- Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) 44•17 hours ago
Their mission is committing to provide “universal access to all knowledge”.
It’s rather depressing that people are attacking such a site. They might have even made a bit of coin if they responsibly reported it.
- DdCno1 ( @DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 15•17 hours ago
I would guess that it’s simply large enough to be a valuable target.
- hedge ( @hedge@beehaw.org ) English1•9 hours ago
Seems to be up now.
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 1•10 hours ago
The only reason I can think of to get that data is to circumvent archive.org’s limitations on renting out stuff so your bots can slurp books without getting throttled.
That is, my best guess is that this was pirates seeing if they can’t add to libgen.
Or it’s a “prove you can do stuff” kind of deal.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 6•15 hours ago
Wait the IA is still going on? I’ve been getting an error whenever i tried to access it for days now
- Segab 👻 ( @Segab@beehaw.org ) English1•3 hours ago
There was a DDoS but it’s a separate attack from what I read