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The Internet Archive's been hacked and had a data breach
I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.
Also, I can't remember but didn't Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I don't think it was ever deleted, but that's the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but there's content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.
Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like it'd take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I don't know but I'm hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if it's not 3-2-1. I'm only mildly paranoid about it lol.
frankly, the entire design of IA is more than a bit fucking stupid for the purpose it serves. "oh hey here's the whole IA, right in this building over here" is just galaxybrained derpery
physical goods I can understand central-point (or some centralisation) in archive management, but ffs we're multiple decades into knowing how to build things differently
(stance contextualisation: while I'm glad that the IA exists, I'm not an unreserved stan of it. there are a couple other notable concerns with it, alongside the thing I just mentioned)