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by zerebubuth 2980 days ago
One method for making a copy or crawl very difficult to tamper with is to publish a hash somewhere difficult to forge (e.g: in a national newspaper or opentimestamps). That won't prove the copy wasn't manipulated before it was archived, though. For that, we would need multiple, independent archives.

This is effectively what libraries have been doing for many years with their archives of newspapers.

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The hashing needs to be done by a trusted third party. It would be a cheaper to operate service than wayback, but would let you check individuals content against manipulation.

You have to incentivize people running and storing the hashes.

You could put it in the bitcoin blockchain. Or if you don't need that level of complexity and cost, you could put it on twitter, which doesn't allow editing tweets (but does allow deleting).