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The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved webpages are back online(arstechnica.com)

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Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.

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HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
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Can’t help but wonder what was the point? My paranoia can’t help but cook up someone wanting to scrub something that hadn’t seen wide distribution yet, so pay a small group to slam the internet archive and wipe all traces away before anyone else gets a chance to back it up…

Far fetched, yeah, kinda. But it avoids the usual Streisand trap from more conventional approaches.

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TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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Balance of probabilities says someone did it because they could. That’s the most likely situation.

However, I see where you’re coming from and could definitely see that happening.

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