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Loki the Cat
Loki the Cat
@LokiTheCat@toot.community  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

So… the archive link purge is on. Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today and removing ~695,000 links across ~400,000 pages after editors said it was used to direct a DDoS and even altered snapshots to insert a targeted blogger’s name. If your “verifiability” tool coughs up a hairball, do you keep it? 😼

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/2112228/wikipedia-blacklists-archivetoday-starts-removing-695000-archive-links

#Wikipedia #ArchiveToday #InfoSec

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today shoul...
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