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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site (www.404media.co)

submitted 6 days ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] a_person@piefed.social 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Damn, I was wondering why it was down. I hope it goes back up soon, its such a useful tool.

[–] dsilverz@calckey.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

@a_person@piefed.social @silence7@slrpnk.net @technology@lemmy.world

Same when I tried to access the archived version of the linked article of this thread. I was faced by a TLS error I never saw before (SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT), so I thought the Archive Today was facing server-side issues, until I decided to try accessing through the smartphone, and no error happened there.

I only managed to access Archive Today through my computer after disabling several security things, which seems quite suspicious, as if the Archive Today were being hijacked by a MitM (possibly the FBI themselves? They're famous for setting up honeypots) who were trying to push malicious code/tracking to whomever access it.

I would be further worried if I were USian or a citizen from Global North (as I'm Brazilian and from Global South, I can tell the FBI to go pound sand, lol).

To USians, my suggestion is caution accessing Archive Today (at least the current IP address being pointed at by mainstream DNS resolvers) for a while, as the server, while seemingly Archive Today, may be actually some kind of FBI honeypot in disguise. It goes without saying how ICANN and IANA are US entities, prone to interference from three-lettered US agencies. There are alternatives to Archive Today, such as Ghost Archive and 12ft.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

12ft got taken down sometime last year, iirc.

[–] a_person@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Rip, I was on my school wifi acessing it.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It is up. This very article for instance: https://archive.is/5QFkF
or
https://archive.today/5QFkF
or
https://archive.md/5QFkF
etc

[–] punkibas@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, all 3 domains are blocked on the protonvpn DNS server, can only access the if I turn off my VPN.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Australian Proton server works. USA server fails.

[–] punkibas@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then maybe it's just that the archive website blocked some of the proton ips for abuse or something

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I considered that but they use captcha so abuse seems unlikely.