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Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Aatube@thriv.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023. [...] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html:

By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger's URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

In a later email, “Nora Puchreiner” wrote, “I do not care on your blog and its content. I just need the links from Heise and other media to be 404.” One message threatened to investigate “your Nazi grandfather” and “vibecode a gyrovague.gay dating app.” Another threatened to create a public association between Patokallio’s name and AI porn.

A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.” The Tumblr blog has several other recent posts criticizing Patokallio and accusing him of hiding his real name. However, the Gyrovague blog shows Patokallio’s name in a sidebar and discloses that he works for Google in Sydney, Australia, while stating that the blog posts contain only his personal views.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Still not sure I follow but I'll look again.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 0 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

"[...] having such a noble and rare name, which in retaliation could be used for the name of a scam project or become a byword for a new category of AI porn…" is a citation of an email from the .today admin to the blogger.

for a 2 year old blog post.

This guy has serious issues, and it's not only the FBI.

[–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Oh. TIL.

My brain had it filed under "an aggressive, close-minded person". I probably read it somewhere in a context with the marines and conflated the expression with the image that the marines sometimes get attributed with - "eating crayons", being hyperaggressive and stuff like that.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Okay, where does "jarhead" come in from that? I'm missing something here.