The FBI sleeps when libraries burn
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English6•6 hours ago
Ok, but no need to be bitchy towards the good librarians.
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English106•17 hours ago
This person could be damaging corporate infrastructure but he goes after internet archive
- huginn ( @huginn@feddit.it ) English51•14 hours ago
This guy is outing the archive for terrible security posture by bringing attention to it because they received disclosures and did not fix them.
Don’t get shit twisted - he’s the hero here. IA fucked up and has been vulnerable to manipulation by any number of corporate or national actors this entire time.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English22•9 hours ago
If they were really “the hero”, they’d follow the bare minimum of responsible disclosure best practices, and allow 90 days between privately alerting them of the issue and going public with it. Two weeks is absurd.
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English36•14 hours ago
If this was genuinely done out of love I could understand but due to the legal battles the internet archive is currently being dragged through, I harbor suspicion of their intent.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English45•16 hours ago
I mean this person seems to be not doing it maliciously. As they say, if it wasn’t them, it would be someone else. Pushing archive to improve their security is great for everyone. As long as this person doesn’t do anything actually malicious, they’re in the clear as far as I’m concerned.
- orca ( @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ) English35•16 hours ago
This strikes me as state-funded or state adjacent hacking. Kind of like how the destruction of Twitter eliminated a source of on-the-ground, 24/7 information for the working class on all of the events our governments would prefer we not see so that their propaganda can be produced more lazily. Destroying the Internet Archive acts as another hindrance to the working class when it comes to staying informed and enriched.
- B0rax ( @B0rax@feddit.org ) English17•16 hours ago
This message here in particular is not looking state funded if you ask me. Gaining access to zendesk tickets is a vulnerability which was published a few weeks/months ago and is not difficult at all.
- Nexy ( @Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ) English23•16 hours ago
Why they don’t try to ddos and hack ChatGPT instead or something?
- Arcturus ( @Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•16 hours ago
The FBI sleeps when libraries burn
This dumbass is probably being paid by them in the first place lol
- Handles ( @halm@leminal.space ) English19•18 hours ago
FFS, that whole hack has left the IA a shambles.
- BonerMan ( @BonerMan@ani.social ) English4•16 hours ago
Doesn’t seem to be ill intended, not a good way to point out a problem, but the problem is there.