Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today After DDoS Attack and Content Tampering
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Summary
Wikipedia's English edition is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to launch a DDoS attack against a blog. During discussions about deprecating the site due to the attack, Wikipedia editors discovered that Archive.today had altered webpage snapshots to insert the name of the targeted blogger, apparently motivated by a grudge over a blog post. The site is being removed from Wikipedia, affecting approximately 695,000 archive links.
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Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS.
The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.t
In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages.
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