If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

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 should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Also, as the name indicates, it downloads the page as a single file. Obviously, it doesn’t help for archiving the page for other people, though.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Couldn’t you host it somewhere yourself? I guess there’s a question of trust there, but trust is the reason Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        57 minutes ago

        I would probably use the Wayback Machine for that. You can give it the page’s address and tell it to make a copy.