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chucksmashyesterday at 1:48 PM1 replyview on HN

A DDoS against a blog that iirc was attempting to dox the archive.today maintainer.

The bit about tampering with archived pages is news to me though. Wish the wiki discussion included receipts. Is "two users report they were redirected to tehrantimes.com" what is being referred to when they say archived pages are being tampered with?


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faidityesterday at 3:09 PM

It looks like the "tampering" was mostly just removing the username of the person submitting the links, so they wouldn't get banned by paywall sites, and archive.today has always done this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

And it looks like in some instances they changed their own alias to the name of the blogger they're in dispute with, in a fit of pique.

You have to scroll down to get hints because the conversation has been redacted, and the evidence is not provided with side-by-side comparisons.

I understand the ethical concerns about linking to the site but the blanket accusations of "tampering" seem a bit disingenuous, since no article content was ever changed afaik.

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