This is like shutting down a food bank or library. It’s a public good. You accomplish nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a false flag from other interests because this target is plain stupid on the ‘hackers’ part
you know, some dude from r/datahoarder who mirrored hundreds of petabyte from the internet archive is smiling knowing that his work was worth it and he could rebuild the archive at any time.
Internet archive is where I watched a lot of the documentaries that show "the wrong side of history", great place for the likes of Ernst Zundel and Tom Metzger content. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a partial motivation.
Looks like you didn't even use the Internet Archives recourses of you think that Christians burnt the Library of Alexandria, it was your precious pagans who did that. Call out the real problem for who they are, but I guess that would be too antisemitic huh?
I like to look at the bright side of things. Hopefully they use this as an opportunity to increase their operational security and website resilience. They likely still have all the data and can restore it in full.
@@noderunner_ They are currently facing immense legal trouble with publishers and already lost a lawsuit for which the damages they have to pay are way beyond their budget already. They most definitely cannot invest the money into upgrading their security
From the tone of the email, and the hacker giving info to security things, i think the hacker that breached it was trying to get them to fix it before its too late If it was gov, they would have been quiet If it was a random hackerman, there is no-one selling the info to people
My schizo theory is the powers that be don’t want anyone looking anything up pre-2020. I mean, it’s not as if the news won’t edit an article or a film won’t be edited to add current day things or history changed…
theyre actually erasing 2020-2022 era stuff because they want to repeat the nonsense cough and don't want any fact checking. People are already forgetting
The fact that the security was so weak to the point that nobodies lowlife hackers could hack into it, yet it took so long for them to finally get hacked just shows how much respect everyone has for Internet Archive. Targeting the only archive of the Internet is just a new low.
honestly. leaving a .git is pretty embarrassing. if that was one of the vectors... well let's just say that a lot of people who learn hacking will know to look for those even if they are not experienced
Attacking internet archive is equivalent to attacking a news station that’s there to record, you don’t do it and it’ll make you look bad in everyone’s eyes
there's degrees of penetration testing response that shoud to be followed from important companies. Oh well, I suppose that was their collective reports forwarded beginning from 2018. sacred ground, indeed. powerful entities benefit from distribution of this collective data log.
Scholastic was a Jewish ran publisher, the main educational books in my school and the things they misrepresented and promoted in those "educational" books are complete revisionist history. Funny how they got a government contract for all that.
The Internet Wayback Machine and the file archives aren't just for fun. It's court evidence, books and other media you can't get anywhere else, educational resources that were originally taken down etc. I know the word can't be reclaimed, but at least don't call these twats "hackers".
@@lilpisser124 Or maybe the guy is just expressing his distaste toward the situation in general? This is what only using the internet as a form of human communication will do to a man.
This smells of state-sponsored/corporate-sponsored attackers...but I am really disappointed in IAs failure to take security seriously I hope we have backups somewhere...
What is the point of a conspiracy theory when they already have the conspiracy complete? You don't even have to work at these entities anymore as long as you still have access to your email and they will remove whatever you tell them to. There are people who have been getting things removed just because they still have a Google email address despite not having worked there for years. Just like Facebunk and Twatter, the government and companies don't need to do anything except send the archive an email and tell them to take it down.
Very unprofessional tbh, they didn’t need to put up an alert or send out emails. They could’ve sent an email to everyone that maintains AI and kept it under wraps. They wanted the attention.
The person who put up the alert was in the original hacking group (so wouldn't bother letting IA management know anyway), and the guy who sent out the email appears to simply have been someone who used part of the leaked DB to warn a lot of people that the Archive hadn't got their shit together yet.
The internet archive saved my ass in College. My professor for analysis of algorithms used to post the midterm solutions to his class website after the midterm was done. The older class pages were always archived and accessible and but he just made the old tests not accessible publicly ud get a 404, only current semesters midterm was available. The issue came up because if you put the URL for past semesters midterm in the wayback machine you could see and download the entire midterm and most of the time it was a very similar question.
When i do research and investigate things I use the internet archive for some things. I can't imagine what operations involving investigative or education purposes were halted or put on pause due to these hacks. Honestly horrible for people to hack the Internet archive of all things. I hope they get things fixed.
No one needs to hack it because they censor their so-called archive themselves in the first place. They are trash not worth defending. They're like being handed a dictionary where someone ripped out all the pages with mean words on them. Garbage not worth your time.
Funnily enough if you look up at least certain long term and often archived items you see that they have old and new archived versions of said item but everything during the period of 2019 - 2022 is removed. How strange...
Possibly it is not, and cannot be compliant with the new set of laws, and regulations, but nobody dares to take the responsibility for issuing an order to shut it down. "Of the past let us wipe the slate clean"
Choose your flavor of who possibly could have hacked IA: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley. All of these publisher's are currently suing them. I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to see free information not be free anymore.
so I'm in college rn and this is really disappointing because I've had professors use internet archive for their offical textbook (as opposed to a different online textbook service), its really sad becuase it was so nice to have free access to textbooks that otherwise would've cost $40-80
Sounds like to me that IA had terrible security posture and someone who personally knows the site or someone who wants these services to have the best of the best in mind decided to take IA down despite bringing the admins the attention their site needed. When he was ignored or discredited, decided to take the matters into his own hands to show them the reality of it happening and to get them to evaluate that the possibility was going to and not be put aside. I believe his point that since it was only him that did it, it would be far more catastrophic if it was anyone else other than him of what he's going to do, cause he's making others aware of it, otherwise someone who would want to take it down would do so without informing at all entirely which would be far more malicious.
Saw people say IA might be hacking themselves and pretending its others. Why else would they NOT change their API keys?? If true, not sure what their goals are, although one youtube video suggested it's to expose "removal requests" publicly without getting in (as much) trouble.
It wouldn't surprise me if it's glowies or the legal team of those scummy companies hiring a hacker. It doesn't seem like most people wanted to hack the Internet Archive even if they could. Though that does make me wonder why a white hat or grey hat didn't find and disclose these vulnerabilities sooner if it's being knowingly insecure for so long.
It could've been so much unbelievably worse, so I'm glad it isn't. It's clear to me that the hacker is extremely disappointed and upset at the Internet Archive's state of affairs, and their intent is to get them to harden their security. We. Cannot. Afford. To lose the Internet Archive. It'd be like burning down the second fucking Library of Alexandria! And everybody knows how that went down in history: an unambiguously, uncontroversially absolute catastrophe, and a most unfortunate, grave loss for all of humanity. It'd be an exercise in the utmost insanity to allow yet another biggest library in the world to be destroyed again.
Considering the current time of the year in the US and how much the Internet Archive tends to be a thorn in the side of certain parties' agendas, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was some state-backed involvement going on around here somewhere...
Instead of just wagging their fingers and tuk tuk tuk Actually talk to ia and talk to them directly Hell visit their offices and show them it Get some white hats to properly secure it for free Do anything then "we know the problem and the solution but we expect you to guess both"
How does illegal to contact employees for outages work? That sounds like a horrible idea if i work for a team that manages healthcare infrastructure. So it's illegal for me to stop hackers from stealing patient data?
In some places, if you need to have someone on call 24/7 they need extra compensation. An org like IA might not have a dedicated security team on call, it gets expensive.
ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
You should have on call employees for such things.
ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1
@@pacifico4999 Which does make sense since you can't just expect that you just stop living or having a weekend just so your boss can call you without compensation.
This is like shutting down a food bank or library. It’s a public good. You accomplish nothing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a false flag from other interests because this target is plain stupid on the ‘hackers’ part
OpenLibrary is part of Internet Archive, so the hackers literally shut down the world's most accessible library.
Lol plenty of actors would like the archive gone
You underestimate the pretentiousness of the same group of people that promote a patriarchy (Palestine) whilst being women
It was profit based. They say it was for “ palestine” but they were already trying to sell the data. Just human greed lol
The archive is not a “public food bank”. Nor is it anything like a utility. You guys are retarded and cuck pilled. Grow up
said it before and ill say it again, who benefits more from erasing the verifiability of history:
1. random trolls
2. government states
gee i wonder…
3. Nintendo (They're assholes)
alex jones hacked them
OP did not Epstein himself.
Stop it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂they aren't that smart @@XPro72
Reminder that 4chan ruined Mitchell Henderson's family's lives for literally no reason
you know, some dude from r/datahoarder who mirrored hundreds of petabyte from the internet archive is smiling knowing that his work was worth it and he could rebuild the archive at any time.
This is important. Cross fingers then
The ia says they have 15 PB of storage, idk how much of that they're actually using tho
Is it true or are you just making shit up ?
@@alainportant6412there's a dedicated group of I think 7 guys that worked on it
@@alainportant6412 I CAINT REED!!!
You know it's bad when even Black Hats on Forums are like WTF Dude . But as we see again not keeping up your Security can have consequences
They are script kiddies but yeh I get Ur message
_*Database that potentially has evidence of wrongdoings of certain military entities_
"It was random hackermans."
Zionists learned for their 3rd Reich predecessors
What those scumbags get hacking such an important library?
Power by erasing knowledge.
pretty sure that they get more controversy than the GTA leak, which is the same amount of insanity and they might've not suited to the society itself.
attention
Being paid by companies who really value copyright laws not changing.
Strange how all these hacks have a side effect of empowering the current power structure.
At this moment, we need to make Internet Archive for Internet Archive.
Decenternet Archive
The Internet Archive never shouldve been a central entity.
their database backup should just exist as a bunch of torrents at this point
IPFS archive
Hard to do, the amount of data is humongous (~100 petabytes).
The Abrahamist's have burnt down the digital library of alexander. Imagine my shock
@@GlasbanGorm is it bigger than their hats?
@@hodumxtheir hats are strangely small
@@vans617 it's not about the size of the hat, it's about the kvetching with the shekeling.
Internet archive is where I watched a lot of the documentaries that show "the wrong side of history", great place for the likes of Ernst Zundel and Tom Metzger content. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a partial motivation.
Looks like you didn't even use the Internet Archives recourses of you think that Christians burnt the Library of Alexandria, it was your precious pagans who did that. Call out the real problem for who they are, but I guess that would be too antisemitic huh?
just when I was surfing youtube and looking at all the trash, finally someone decent uploads :D
True
The content is Based and Intelligent. A hard to fill niche
Willing to bet it's people being paid by big corpos and such.
Yup,it's definitely election time.
I just want old footage
They should open source the internet archive to let everyone else fix their security issues
I like to look at the bright side of things. Hopefully they use this as an opportunity to increase their operational security and website resilience. They likely still have all the data and can restore it in full.
These things cost money
I don’t have access to their financials but I could see them receiving an uptick in donations due to their recent turmoil.
@@noderunner_I’ve heard they get $30m in revenue. Maybe around 4mil in profit
@@noderunner_ They are currently facing immense legal trouble with publishers and already lost a lawsuit for which the damages they have to pay are way beyond their budget already. They most definitely cannot invest the money into upgrading their security
This the internet version of burning down the library of alexandria
Difference being the archive has a good couple libraries of Alexandria worth of data on it 😂
and the annex of alexandria that burned was largely empty, the texts that remained there being trite that was unworthy of placement elsewhere
THIS ITS SO SCARY TO THINK ABOUT??
luckily all the data isn't just gone
He who controls the past controls the future.😅
@@CopperCooper420 it was supposed to be contained in a video game!
Nintendo and the Government. 🐿️
From the tone of the email, and the hacker giving info to security things, i think the hacker that breached it was trying to get them to fix it before its too late
If it was gov, they would have been quiet
If it was a random hackerman, there is no-one selling the info to people
My schizo theory is the powers that be don’t want anyone looking anything up pre-2020.
I mean, it’s not as if the news won’t edit an article or a film won’t be edited to add current day things or history changed…
1984 ?
this isnt as crazy as it sounds
Powers that be: lets edit everything retroactively to change history!
My physical magazines from 1946:
theyre actually erasing 2020-2022 era stuff because they want to repeat the nonsense cough and don't want any fact checking. People are already forgetting
What powers that be? How could this possiby work? have you simply forgotten physical media exists?
The fact that the security was so weak to the point that nobodies lowlife hackers could hack into it, yet it took so long for them to finally get hacked just shows how much respect everyone has for Internet Archive. Targeting the only archive of the Internet is just a new low.
(it pretty obviously was not just some yobbos)
No one targetted it because of less worth not more respect
There are other archives
honestly. leaving a .git is pretty embarrassing. if that was one of the vectors... well let's just say that a lot of people who learn hacking will know to look for those even if they are not experienced
@@薹 no one hacked it because its the equivalent of modern day library of alexandria
Our favorite merchants (IIDF) working their asses off!
Attacking internet archive is equivalent to attacking a news station that’s there to record, you don’t do it and it’ll make you look bad in everyone’s eyes
🇮🇱🪛🩸👶🕳️
they think they are linus tech tips
These hacks glow.
They’d just shut it down, they wouldn’t have to do it like this
@@AnonymousQwerty delulu
@@F.M671 😂
indeed
that's so sad. so bad.. is like destroying something needed beautiful for the sake of defacing it.
there's degrees of penetration testing response that shoud to be followed from important companies. Oh well, I suppose that was their collective reports forwarded beginning from 2018.
sacred ground, indeed. powerful entities benefit from distribution of this collective data log.
Thank GOD i downloaded all the files i might need from the internet archive years ago because i saw all this crap coming
All the world's cyber security experts should unite and offer hand to the Internet Archive.
At least half of the world's cybersecurity experts would prefer it to stay down. The state funded half.
People need to store historical videos on SD drives that are not plugged into a computer.
They're going to erase history.
i’m glad i downloaded TempleOS before this happened 🎊
Always fresh, always on time, thanks, Mr. Outlaw
during election season? gee, i wonder...
stuff needs putting on optical and other types of hard media, even things like records or those new type of floppy disk things that hold like 50 TB
I was literally wondering why I couldn't access it. This so horrible!
Don't think these unknowns can even call themselves hackers atp...
Makes me wonder how much power book publishers have in the world...
Scholastic was a Jewish ran publisher, the main educational books in my school and the things they misrepresented and promoted in those "educational" books are complete revisionist history. Funny how they got a government contract for all that.
Not much anymore
The Internet Wayback Machine and the file archives aren't just for fun. It's court evidence, books and other media you can't get anywhere else, educational resources that were originally taken down etc. I know the word can't be reclaimed, but at least don't call these twats "hackers".
They literally are hackers, dude. Idk what to tell you
@@wolfy6631don't generalize hackers like that lol
@@SurabBarve I'm not generalizing them 💀
Just hope IA comes back online as quick as possible :)
If you hack the Internet Archive maybe you deserve to be caught by the feds
You most likely are a fed lmao
@@rodi8266"Everyone I don't like is a fed"
They probably are feds
@@PeruvianPotato i dunno that sounds like something a fed would say
@@lilpisser124 Or maybe the guy is just expressing his distaste toward the situation in general? This is what only using the internet as a form of human communication will do to a man.
There's something in there that someone wants burried
One must ask Cui Bono? Who benefits from all this? -it ain’t the basement dwellers on Breach…
There are many actors at play whose interest is to destroy these endeavours.
Something is fishy about this whole situation. Either the site admins have NO CLUE how to secure their own website or they're in on the problem.
The fact they sent out emails mocking them for not changing credentials even after the breach tells me this was not a professional 'hit' job.
Was one my favorite site for getting old software and drivers will miss it.
Seems such a weird thing to attack
It's gotta be a psyop.
@@VioFax maybe something with election, maybe theres something they dont want people to discover
Weird unless you'd want to delete historical documents...
Control the past, control the future
Control the media, control the people
This won't make news :/
@@LeftyPencilIt’s been in many news articles already though, lol
We need to archive the archive
This smells of state-sponsored/corporate-sponsored attackers...but I am really disappointed in IAs failure to take security seriously
I hope we have backups somewhere...
What is the point of a conspiracy theory when they already have the conspiracy complete?
You don't even have to work at these entities anymore as long as you still have access to your email and they will remove whatever you tell them to.
There are people who have been getting things removed just because they still have a Google email address despite not having worked there for years.
Just like Facebunk and Twatter, the government and companies don't need to do anything except send the archive an email and tell them to take it down.
Very unprofessional tbh, they didn’t need to put up an alert or send out emails. They could’ve sent an email to everyone that maintains AI and kept it under wraps. They wanted the attention.
The person who put up the alert was in the original hacking group (so wouldn't bother letting IA management know anyway), and the guy who sent out the email appears to simply have been someone who used part of the leaked DB to warn a lot of people that the Archive hadn't got their shit together yet.
Hmm, someone in this list: Anyone in traditional News, Floyd Mayweather, 4chan kids, Israel, the CIA, a Russian 12 year old who's bored, the Pope
Why Floyd 😂
@@Just-in-time3 Floyd: 'If i cant read, then yall cant neither!'
4chan has been a honeypot for nearly a decade now.
@@YeahNaw- so the list still stands lol
there is a dude that mirrored *petabytes* of internet archive, we have hope atleast.
what's his name...
The internet archive saved my ass in College. My professor for analysis of algorithms used to post the midterm solutions to his class website after the midterm was done. The older class pages were always archived and accessible and but he just made the old tests not accessible publicly ud get a 404, only current semesters midterm was available. The issue came up because if you put the URL for past semesters midterm in the wayback machine you could see and download the entire midterm and most of the time it was a very similar question.
When i do research and investigate things I use the internet archive for some things. I can't imagine what operations involving investigative or education purposes were halted or put on pause due to these hacks. Honestly horrible for people to hack the Internet archive of all things. I hope they get things fixed.
No one needs to hack it because they censor their so-called archive themselves in the first place. They are trash not worth defending.
They're like being handed a dictionary where someone ripped out all the pages with mean words on them. Garbage not worth your time.
I hope they get back in good shape. A wakeup call indeed!
Funnily enough if you look up at least certain long term and often archived items you see that they have old and new archived versions of said item but everything during the period of 2019 - 2022 is removed. How strange...
Yeah i wonder which state entity is behind this. There is definitely an attempt to forget about all the covid era crap.
I was just wondering when this video would come out.
Possibly it is not, and cannot be compliant with the new set of laws, and regulations, but nobody dares to take the responsibility for issuing an order to shut it down.
"Of the past let us wipe the slate clean"
Now we need the internet archive archive 😭😭
Probably cause they rid of the video "greatest story never told."
Go back go /pol/ boy, the adults are talking
@@PeruvianPotato you've been playing defense under the vast majority of comments and acting like a typical you know what.
@@YeahNaw- You too, go back there. I have no business talking with children.
Definetely feels like election season.
Choose your flavor of who possibly could have hacked IA: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley. All of these publisher's are currently suing them. I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to see free information not be free anymore.
It’s symbolic… like….remember the library of Alexandria
so I'm in college rn and this is really disappointing because I've had professors use internet archive for their offical textbook (as opposed to a different online textbook service), its really sad becuase it was so nice to have free access to textbooks that otherwise would've cost $40-80
1:53 how brutally honest you want to be? -YES
Sounds like to me that IA had terrible security posture and someone who personally knows the site or someone who wants these services to have the best of the best in mind decided to take IA down despite bringing the admins the attention their site needed. When he was ignored or discredited, decided to take the matters into his own hands to show them the reality of it happening and to get them to evaluate that the possibility was going to and not be put aside. I believe his point that since it was only him that did it, it would be far more catastrophic if it was anyone else other than him of what he's going to do, cause he's making others aware of it, otherwise someone who would want to take it down would do so without informing at all entirely which would be far more malicious.
Nose gang at it as usual
That’s rough man
Saw people say IA might be hacking themselves and pretending its others. Why else would they NOT change their API keys??
If true, not sure what their goals are, although one youtube video suggested it's to expose "removal requests" publicly without getting in (as much) trouble.
When i was this early, youtube had annotations
I hope 🤞 they fix it soon 🔜
World dumbest idea from me, i would tell directly to them "Stop now, stop that fucking manic behaviour shit"
For they perhaps would not stop..
It wouldn't surprise me if it's glowies or the legal team of those scummy companies hiring a hacker. It doesn't seem like most people wanted to hack the Internet Archive even if they could.
Though that does make me wonder why a white hat or grey hat didn't find and disclose these vulnerabilities sooner if it's being knowingly insecure for so long.
It could've been so much unbelievably worse, so I'm glad it isn't. It's clear to me that the hacker is extremely disappointed and upset at the Internet Archive's state of affairs, and their intent is to get them to harden their security.
We. Cannot. Afford. To lose the Internet Archive. It'd be like burning down the second fucking Library of Alexandria! And everybody knows how that went down in history: an unambiguously, uncontroversially absolute catastrophe, and a most unfortunate, grave loss for all of humanity. It'd be an exercise in the utmost insanity to allow yet another biggest library in the world to be destroyed again.
if only Internet archive was only on the blockhain whilst using hashmap
I can’t listen to the Grateful Dead live shows because of these damn hackers
Data will be the next big currency, can't be having free information. Could be either side.
Considering the current time of the year in the US and how much the Internet Archive tends to be a thorn in the side of certain parties' agendas, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was some state-backed involvement going on around here somewhere...
Maybe the responsible for the IA data breach is the friends we made along the way
Unless your data is in a Faraday cage it can be hacked.
on an optical disk?
Those employees should not be called to fix something that isn't their problem. If a company wants better coverage, hire more people.
Dystopian future is nigh
oh fuck I checked have I been pwned and I have from the internet archive hack
ooh shit :// good luck dude
The DDOS is definitely hired. I feel like the zendesk disclosure is a greyhat that’s unrelated.
Instead of just wagging their fingers and tuk tuk tuk
Actually talk to ia and talk to them directly
Hell visit their offices and show them it
Get some white hats to properly secure it for free
Do anything then "we know the problem and the solution but we expect you to guess both"
FINALY A VIDEO ABOUT THIS
It doesn't make sense for the Internet Archive's security to be this poor, especially with just how important it is.
It's the beginning of the war. The 4 turnings is nearly here.
If anything this will make Internet Archive more secure and reliable in the future, so good on the hackers tbh
2:43 uber-virgin microsoft
Careful, it almost sounds like you think conpanies should be able to make employees work whenever they feel like it.
2024 is the worst year in internet history, every year we keep embracing the "Dead Internet" theory.
I understand neither what kind of person hacks a global public utility nor what kind of people were creating accounts
I haven’t seen anyone point out something pretty relevant- the IA is currently being sued into the ground by publishers.
Hopefully they hire a competent team going forward.
not changing the api keys makes it glow
Could it have been the Kennedys? Was it LAPD?
These hacks smell suspicious
These guys need to ask for more donations...
It's already offline again after a day of being back online 😭
Mister hacker man must of gotten bored of Fortnight.
How does illegal to contact employees for outages work? That sounds like a horrible idea if i work for a team that manages healthcare infrastructure.
So it's illegal for me to stop hackers from stealing patient data?
In some places, if you need to have someone on call 24/7 they need extra compensation. An org like IA might not have a dedicated security team on call, it gets expensive.
You should have on call employees for such things.
@@pacifico4999 Which does make sense since you can't just expect that you just stop living or having a weekend just so your boss can call you without compensation.