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ticklemyIP

@internetarchive My 2 cents: I'm glad you're beginning to recover, however I think these attacks have been a timely wake up call to start modernizing your infrastructure and security.
Using your platform for a while it quickly became conspicuous to me that you rely on a lot of outdated, legacy projects and code. I only have to mention that if a user changes their email, they lose their archive and they have to write to the admins on one of your outdated forum platforms. You should start rewo...

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ticklemyIP

@internetarchive
...working your platform security and robustness step by step and while you're at it you should also start modernizing it with new interfaces and UX. Best of luck.

P.McNewHold :flagPiratbyraan:

@ticklemyIP @internetarchive And they did! And I think, they do as well, intend to continue on that too. I'm confident of it. blog.archive.org/2024/10/18/in

“The safety and integrity of the Internet Archive’s data and patrons remain our top priorities. As the security incident is analyzed and contained by our team, we are relaunching services as defenses are strengthened. These efforts are focused on reinforcing firewall systems and further protecting the data stores.”

@ticklemyIP @internetarchive And they did! And I think, they do as well, intend to continue on that too. I'm confident of it. blog.archive.org/2024/10/18/in

“The safety and integrity of the Internet Archive’s data and patrons remain our top priorities. As the security incident is analyzed and contained by our team, we are relaunching services as defenses are strengthened. These efforts are focused on reinforcing firewall systems and further protecting...

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@poorpocketsmcnewhold @ticklemyIP @internetarchive To truly protect against cyberattacks, you need more than just firewalls. This will take months or year.

P.McNewHold :flagPiratbyraan:

@ticklemyIP @internetarchive Well, what I was thinking was especially, trying to work on ways to prevent such attempts in the future, and especially, censure too. For example, they had a partnership with Cloudflare to provide an “always online” mirror via their servers blog.archive.org/2020/09/17/in but also, been promoting decentralization (Hi @dweb ) and via dweb.archive.org (Currently blocked) on that since 2019 according to saved archived of the page on archive.is! blog.archive.org/tag/decentral

@ticklemyIP @internetarchive Well, what I was thinking was especially, trying to work on ways to prevent such attempts in the future, and especially, censure too. For example, they had a partnership with Cloudflare to provide an “always online” mirror via their servers blog.archive.org/2020/09/17/in but also, been promoting decentralization (Hi @dweb ) and via dweb.archive.org (Currently blocked) on that...

Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@ticklemyIP @internetarchive

I'm sure the Archive foundation will gladly welcome your active contribution to the cause, both in terms of work and donations.

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