The timing of Google getting rid of the Google Cache couldn't be even worse with these ongoing DDOS attacks on and necessary hardening of the Internet Archive. Wonder what kind of twisty narrative one could posit about why this is happening?
Likely related to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24269741/internet-archive-online-read-only-data-breach-outage" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24269741/internet-archiv...</a>
What we really need right now is "black hole" of information. A place where you can push stuff, but retrieving is impossible until that time when ironclad legitimation can be automated.<p>Insane that only examples of me myself ever doing anything is in printed copies from 1970's. In National Archives where some aunties still believe that Internet is just a passing fad.
how vulnerable is IA to some malicious actor who wanted to rewrite history or run an 'information cleansing' operation?<p>- take offline<p>- purge 'problematic' archives<p>- return to service<p>is that impossible? are there redundancies to make this very hard?