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Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now | Fireship (4:21)(www.youtube.com)

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The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine was hit by hackers recently with DDoS attacks, a data breach, and vandalism on its website. Over 31 million accounts were compromised and the Wayback Machine has been temporarily taken offline.

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FartVentriloquist69@sh.itjust.works
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Sounds like some kind of decentralized peer system might be a solution…I don’t want to say blockchain but it might have a useful use case here

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Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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It’s called FileCoin and they’re already on it

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fox2263@lemmy.world
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Why does it have to have coin in the name. Why do they need value

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Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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Running file servers isn’t free, you gotta incentivize participation somehow

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HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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this is the first coin since gridcoin that seems to actually have a useful purpose.

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