[dgxyz]

I'm wondering if Jani is possibly going to walk into the wrong party here and get burned. I did some public archival stuff about a decade ago and it was state sponsored and for the intelligence community. I'm not suggesting this is but it'll be very much of interest to competing intelligence services as it's an information control point. None of those are the sort of people you start pissing off by sticking your dick in it. FBI is likely just one of the actors here.

[derefr]

You seem the right person to ask about this: why don’t we see any public web archivers operated by individuals or organizations based in countries that aren’t big fans of aiding or listening to American intelligence?

[dgxyz]

Well they certainly do exist. However they tend not to even get noticed because the mindset and momentum behind everything is America-centric.

[echoangle]

Why would stuff for the intelligence community be made public? Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to keep it private?

[pamcake]

They already mentioned info control. Also visitor and flow data prob juicier than the archives themselves for site like .today.

Oh, and a great injection point of malware, which can be more sophisticated and selective than the DDoS under discussion. Hard to come up with a more efficient browser-0day deployment pipeline if youre flying under radar and want to be able to target arbitrary individuals.

[dgxyz]

Ours was a private archive of public content. There was a long discussion of the intelligence that could be gathered or information manipulated if it was public