The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.

In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.

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[+] -46 points 8 months ago (22 children)
  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't want to do the sir this is a Wendy's thing, but damn this is screaming for a Sir this is a Wendy's kinda thing.

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  • [+] -18 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    But like, first you seem to be upset at the concept of money, which is silly on the face of it. Second, which part of money exchanging hands are you implying? The original DDoS attack or the blacklisting? And in either case, how is the exchanging of money the primary aspect of the story?

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Now explain why you think that's relevant to the article you commented on.

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  • [+] -38 points 8 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    “I am so smart, the answer is obvious. So I won’t tell you. If you don’t get it, you’re not as smart as me.”

    🙄

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  • [+] -24 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.

    You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And the award for the biggest non-sequitur in Internet history goes to... This guy!

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  • [+] -19 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Clicks on a website and absolutely nothing else

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Money, an invented concept, because the difficulty of trading 2 cows for 500 bushels of grain to a farmer 100 km away induced people to come up with a better system than bartering you mean?

    This is seriously some I’m 13 and this is deep bullshit

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In old Aztec lands, it was a crime to pass counterfeit cocoa beans. They used them as a medium of exchange.

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