Fuckers. I don’t know why you’d want to hack the IA, but they’re dicks for doing so. I’m gonna throw some of my spondulix to the IA, and I’d encourage others to do so.
Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant.
TIL
Not all heroes wear capes. Thanks Otter.
Spondulix
That’s an odd name. I’d have called them dollarydoos.
What kind of people target the Internet Archive? I don’t have an X account so does anyone know what the hackers’ mission statement is?
Their mission is committing to provide “universal access to all knowledge”.
It’s rather depressing that people are attacking such a site. They might have even made a bit of coin if they responsibly reported it.
I would guess that it’s simply large enough to be a valuable target.
Update from Mastodon:
I’m inclined to think some corporate entity is somehow tied to this based on nothing but my gut.
No manager is willing to sign off on the risk of jail time for something like this.
They’re probably a bunch of dumb teenagers trying to make a splash. Professionals would’ve sold the data without informing anyone.
Managers sign off on worse and more risky decisions all the time. They just know when to not leave a paper trail.
Wait the IA is still going on? I’ve been getting an error whenever i tried to access it for days now
There was a DDoS but it’s a separate attack from what I read
You sunk my battleship
Seems to be up now.
EDIT: And down again. 🙁
The only reason I can think of to get that data is to circumvent archive.org’s limitations on renting out stuff so your bots can slurp books without getting throttled.
That is, my best guess is that this was pirates seeing if they can’t add to libgen.
Or it’s a “prove you can do stuff” kind of deal.
