Hacktivists Claim Responsibility For Taking Down the Internet Archive (gizmodo.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/10/2012200/hacktivists-claim-responsibility-for-taking-down-the-internet-archive
- Source link: https://gizmodo.com/hacktivists-claim-responsibility-for-taking-down-the-internet-archive-2000510339
> The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine [1]went down on Tuesday following a sustained cyber attack. In addition, the Archive's user data has been compromised. If you've ever logged into the site to pore over its ample archives, it's time to change your passwords. [...] A pro-Palestenian hacktivist group called SN_BLACKMETA has [2]taken responsibility for the hack on X and Telegram. "They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of 'Israel,'" the group said on X when someone asked them why they'd gone after the Archive.
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> The group elaborated on its reasoning in a now-deleted post on X. Jason Scott, an archivist at the Archive, [3]screenshotted it and shared it. "Everyone calls this organization 'non-profit', but if its roots are truly in the United States, as we believe, then every 'free' service they offer bleeds millions of lives. Foreign nations are not carrying their values beyond their borders. Many petty children are crying in the comments and most of those comments are from a group of Zionist bots and fake accounts," the post said.
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> SN_BLACKMETA also claimed responsibility for a six-day DDoS attack on the Archive back in May. "Since the attacks began on Sunday, the DDoS intrusion has been launching tens of thousands of fake information requests per second. The source of the attack is unknown," Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services at the Archive [4]said in a post about the attacks back in May. SN_BLACKMETA launched its Telegram channel on November 23 and has claimed responsibility for a number of other attacks including a six-day DDoS run at Arab financial institutions and various attacks on Israeli tech companies in the spring.
[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/10/09/2247234/internet-archive-suffers-catastrophic-breach-impacting-31-million-users
[2] https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399
[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1844200200203796660
[4] https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/28/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyber-attack/
"Belongs to the USA" (Score:2)
It's based in the USA, but it's a hard stretch to say it "belongs" to them. Maybe if the government created it, but they didn't. I don't even think the US government likes IA and the WM.
> Many petty children are crying in the comments and most of those comments are from a group of Zionist bots and fake accounts
If these comments are mostly by bots and fake accounts, then they aren't petty children - they're bots and fake accounts. The only ones actually being petty children here are SN_BLACKMETA (a stupid and cringe name), whose efforts are wasted and meaningless.
The Israeli government may be genocidal, terrorist fucks, but these g
Re: "Belongs to the USA" (Score:2)
These are the guys they wouldn't even give beepers
Makes no sense (Score:3)
Archive.org is one of the few non-profits that I really appreciate the work of, enough to send them some spare change. To say that they are in any way responsible or related to the awful shit that's going on between Israel and Palestine is just flat out false, and there is no way that they don't know this. I suspect that the group's actual intentions are either to just get publicity by stirring up controversy, or to try to make Palestine look bad (maybe as a way to tilt public perception). Either way, it's sad. If they want to hack people responsible for the wars in the middle east, there are probably thousands of better targets they could have picked instead.
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It helps if you discover through searching this group's time with a date boundary of before this week, that they're almost certainly "Anonymous Sudan" rebranded as a pro-Palestine group as of like... a few months ago?
So, trolls.
Exactly the kind of responsibility claim... (Score:2)
... the content Mafia - which is about the only group with a proven and plausible interest in harming the InterNet Archive - would use to distract from their malicious activities.
Sure, "activist groups" sometimes use contorted logic to justify their choice of victims, but this example here is hilariously implausible.
Internet Archive, the Great Satan (Score:2)
Seriously?
F*ck-off you morons.
Way to gain support for your cause (Score:2)
What a brain-dead bunch of morons. No wonder so many people are sick and tired of anti-Israel activists. They act as if their cause is the only one on the planet, and that their cause justifies any amount of destruction and vandalism.
Fuck right off, SN_BLACKMETA
Are you serious? (Score:2)
Did they seriously attack the Internet Archive on the anniversary of Hezbollah's attack on Israeli civilians and somehow think this would be make me supportive of them? Attacking the Internet Archive is a good way to erase any support I might have for your cause but on top of that, the date of the attack was not arbitrary or mere coincidence. I'm 100% against anyone aligning themselves with Hezbollah, the terrorist group that initiated this latest conflict.
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Yeah, this is an attack you'd arrange specifically to discredit a group for doing it.
Archive.org is about as "American" a target as the red cross.
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I was wondering who the hell would be motivated to attack them, I guess it makes sense that it was just for the attention that could be gained by attacking something prominent. See also: activists gluing themselves to famous artworks or city main streets to bring attention to their cause.