sedwards33123 on Gab: 'I can't believe there's not a single thread about this... The Internet Archive has been experiencing a DDOS attack for three days and its security was breached. Salted PW's were compromised and The Archive is working to increase security to prevent future data loss. This is, whether anyone is admitting it or not, a misattribution attack. Publicly, the company which sued The Internet Archive is being being blamed but of course, would have no motive to do this as they recently won their court case to get the 'lending library' aspect of the site removed. The reality is that in 25 days, we are having an election; perhaps the last in our history. The Internet Archive is one of the last sites on the Internet based in the United States which does not engage in censorship. This is the reason it is being attacked. The operation was approved by Anne Neuberger personally and is being implemented by off-duty NSA personnel using non-agency-proprietary tools. It's exactly what they did to 4chan as soon as Biden got into office. I personally rely upon the Internet Archive for hosting my public-domain inventions for my initiative, but there are many thousands of other people in the United States and abroad who rely on the Internet Archive for sharing and discovering information which simply exists nowhere else. The Wayback Machine is perhaps the only thing which can be used to show the younger generation what the Internet was once like. Whenever a website such as http://forums.livescience.com disappears under mysterious circumstances, The Wayback Machine has historically been the place to go to find the proof that there was ever a website there at all. Without the Wayback Machine, a website can not only be made to disappear but the government would be free to declare its former existence to be but a figment of the imagination. The motive for erasing that history is fairly cut and dried. The best way for them to ensure that people don't resist their tyranny is to erase the memory of the time before the tyranny. If tyranny is all anyone knows from birth, they will not resist; we've seen this in China. What was done in China is being attempted here in the United States and it is happening as we speak. Stay up to date with the latest here: https://x.com/internetarchive/'