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Wikipedia Removes Archive.today Links After Malicious Code
Wikipedia will remove over 695,000 Archive.today links after evidence showed the site used visitors' browsers for a DDoS attack and altered archived content.
- Today, English-language Wikipedia editors reached consensus to deprecate and blacklist Archive.today, directing removal of more than 695,000 links across about 400,000 pages soon.
- According to the blogger, Archive.today maintainers allegedly inserted malicious JavaScript into the CAPTCHA page to target Jani Patokallio, blogger , after he refused to remove a 2023 investigative blog post about the archive's ownership.
- Editors documented that archived snapshots on Archive.today appeared altered to insert the targeted blogger's name, Wikipedia says operators altered pages and investigators found aliases: `Denis Petrov` and `Masha Rabinovich`.
- Wikipedia's guidance instructs editors to remove Archive.today links and replace them with original sources or archives like Internet Archive, Ghostarchive, or Megalodon, while adding Archive.today to the spam blacklist and using edit filter tools on Wikipedia.
- Patokallio said he is `glad the Wikipedia community has come to a clear consensus` and `he hopes` this inspires the Wikimedia Foundation to create its own archival service, amid reports of an FBI inquiry and a Tucows subpoena.
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.
Archive.today links banned at Wikipedia after operator edits archived URLs
Archive.today, also found at archive.li and other URLs, is a popular tool for snapshotting web pages and reading paywalled articles. The anonymity of its operators upsets the FBI and makes it an interesting alternative to the Internet Archive, which it has nothing to do with. — Read the rest The post Archive.today links banned at Wikipedia after operator edits archived URLs appeared first on Boing Boing.
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