I wouldn't be claiming a hack on Internet Archive. It's like boasting about setting fire to a library, almost literally.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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Not just any library, the fucking Library of Alexandria.
Yeahhhh this one seems fishy. Unlike the “Handala Hacks” group (seemingly 100% an Iranian state affair) who basically doxxed Israeli citizens and security industry heads, where’s the play in this?
- No ransomware attempt, just DDoS and data grab
- Email and handles compromised, not major info like bank details or SSNs
- VERY publicly pro-Palestine/Palestinian, makes zero mention of occupation, apartheid, civilian suffering, etc
- Tortured ‘link’ between a non-profit .org and the US:Israel alliance as justification
Psyops gonna psyop
Yeah, seems to be about driving wedges in the progressive movements. IA is often used to access information and store proof of it. Especially when governments, newspapers etc. sneaky edit out statements that are incriminating, be it morally or quite often legally.
It is a tool heavily used by pro Palestinian and other progressive activists, with no reason to jeopardize it.
So many things they could target that's related to the cause but they go for the fucking IA? Might as well burn down an orphanage. This is fucked up.
It’s hard to find a sufficient reason for a Palestinian to have done this. Seems likely others players had a hand.
This act is so profoundly counter to increasing pro-Palestinian sentiment that I have to wonder if it was the fuckin' Mossad that did it.
As a pro Palestinian I condemn this action but I won't discredit the whole Palestinian support mouvement
Hacking the Internet Archive is such a fast way to lose support it feels like it must be intentional
Mother fuckers.
Yeah, it's totally not Israel, the country known for being great at hacking and is attacking multiple middle eastern countries at the moment.
False flag, no way that Palestinian supporters would do this. There's simply no reason to. Someone else did for shits and giggles.
Tech-savy teenagers can pull of a "cyber attack" on a nonprofit. It doesn't have to be a smart choice. Sometimes people just want to relieve their anger, break some shit, and claim it for whatever floats their boat right now.
The evidence is absolute bullshit though. So I don't believe it either.
Thanks to a bit of anonymous text on the disinformation machine of a fascist US billionaire, we finally know what's up. Thank God for this achievement in journalism.
Why the hell is anyone still storing actual passwords, even encrypted ones, in 2024? They should only be storing hashes and a salt that's only retrievable on the backend.
Edit: I stand corrected. Newsweek is just doing its usual shit job of reporting. They should know better than calling hashed passwords "encrypted" passwords.
They aren't, newsweek is calling it encryption because they're writing for normies. The leaked data includes bcrypt'ed passwords, so hash and per-password salt. Their choice of hashing function is not what you want to criticise the IA for.
bcrypt, to save you time.
Anyway, I'd be curious to see that data. It also got my email that I only used for donations to IA. I wonder what data is associated with that email.
Not sure where to start searching for that data.