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The defense adds that the similarity between defendant’s social media handle, ‘anarchivist’, and Anna’s Archive is insufficient to support the claims. The same applies to other facts, including her previous occupation as a catalog librarian.
They’re grasping at straws. Viva Anna’s Archive.
Holy shit is their "evidence" that this lady is actually responsible for the site pathetic.
I always wondered where the name came from. I always assumed it was a real person, like craigslist.
That it's short for Anarchist's archive makes a lot more sense.
I always assumed it was a real person,
The person they have charged in this instance is called "Ana".
Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo
Could be a double meaning and mean both.
Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting your theory was incorrect. It could absolutely be both, or one or neither. It's just an interesting coincedence.
In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website [REDACTED], not only through the subscription FirstSearch interface where it had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than a decade before.
So how is this "hacking" if the information is publicly accessible for all?
They really wanna pull an Aaron Swartz again didn't they?
This is the GutHub project by the way:
https://github.com/anarchivist/worldcat
Clearly, a project whose last commit was 12 years ago should be more than enough evidence that she hacked WorldCat.