I had no idea how much I enjoyed LibreVox (which - at least for the things I am interested in - goes to archive.org for downloads) and OpenLibrary until I couldn't access them. This morning, still no go on either.
To be clear, the email thing was 100% the IA's fault, much as I love their work. BleepingComputer warned them something like two weeks in advance.
Yeah, it's a weird blunder to not have rotated keys after being breached. I'm not familiar with how the org works but it sounds like they don't have a dedicated security guy, which is weird for something of that size.
It isn't. Nonprofits don't have a ton of money, and implementing strong security controls takes money and time away from other activities. Small businesses have a lot of trouble for the same reason.
Is internet archive that big? i would imagine you could run it successfully with a dozen or so people tbh
It's big. According to Wikipedia they gained 30.5 million dollars in 2022 and have almost 170 employees - not mentioning probably hundreds of other volunteers. It sounds simple in concept but storing petabytes of data safely and maintaining complex software and hardware for it is impressive. That's why there aren't really any alternatives to it.
They're also much bigger than just the wayback machine, they have multiple projects like OpenLibrary which is a goodreads alternative and scans books to read online. The IA is also under constant legal fire for archiving copyrighted materials so I bet they spent millions of dollars on that alone.
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