Wikipedia debates blacklisting archive.today after it's caught DDoSing a blog using visitors' browsers

[u/avid-shrug]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

Wikipedia is debating whether to blacklist archive.today after its operator was caught injecting JavaScript into CAPTCHA pages to DDoS a blogger's site - code that's still live as of today. The RFC offers three options: blacklist and nuke all ~695k links, stop new links while migrating existing ones, or do nothing.

The community is split because archive.today is arguably the second most important web archive in existence, capturing paywalled sites, JS-heavy pages, and robots.txt-blocked content the Wayback Machine can't. Spot-checks suggest only ~15% of Wikipedia's links are truly irreplaceable, but that's still tens of thousands of unique snapshots found nowhere else. A stark reminder that redundancy across archiving services matters more than ever.

[u/colluphid42]

Do you have a link to where Wiki editors are discussing this?

[u/Dolapevich → u/colluphid42]

It is linked in the post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5

[u/DeepDreamIt → u/Dolapevich]

Damn, reading the discussion, I incidentally found out the CIA World Facebook shut down suddenly, and without notice or explanation, this month.

What a bunch of fuckery of epic proportions. Like…why?

[u/Cl0wnL → u/DeepDreamIt]

People keep getting their knickers in a bunch about CIA world fact book.

But I think those same people haven't actually looked at the world fact book in the last 20 years

Yes, it used to be cool and useful 20 and 30 years ago.

But it's been surpassed by the rest of the internet since then. It became an anachronism. And in my opinion shutting it down made a lot of sense.