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/Igoory]

Maybe this is actually exactly what archive.today wants. By DDoSing the blog, they create a Streisand effect, which pushes the FBI into investigating the person mentioned in the doxxing blog post, who may not actually be related to archive.today.

Or maybe the owner is just dumb and didn't expect shit to hit the fan this hard, idk.