Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn’t like.

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  • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It…what??

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    • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they’re actively working to replace any links already in use

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan…

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      • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s crazy. I’m gonna have to find a self-hosted paywall hopper. 🙄

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    • elmicha@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Keywords that you can put into your favorite search engine: archive.is ddos.

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  • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Damn! Thanks for pointing this out.

    Ars Technica article about it

    In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you have a source for this? I never ask for sources, but I’m making an exception for this.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

      Archive.today is also archive.is and archive.ph. There might be other mirrors i’m unaware of.

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