chaogomu comments on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn't like.

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[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It...what??

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[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It's bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they're actively working to replace any links already in use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

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[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

That's crazy. I'm gonna have to find a self-hosted paywall hopper. 🙄

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 6 points 8 months ago

Damn! Thanks for pointing this out.

Ars Technica article about it

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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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Do you have a source for this? I never ask for sources, but I'm making an exception for this.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 8 months ago*