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      Yeah, what kind of hacktivist group would go against Internet Archive? Not activists for good at least.

      Edit: according to another article they are a pro-Palestinian group. Still not sure about their motives for Internet Archive.

      BlackMeta, also known as SN_BlackMeta, appeared in November 2023 and has a history of claiming responsibility for attacks against organizations in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In May, the group claimed responsibility for a multiday denial-of-service attack on the San Francisco-based Internet Archive. In April, the group claimed to have attacked the Israel-based infrastructure of the Orange Group, a French provider of telecommunication services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The group also targeted organizations in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.

      Dark Reading

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            Archives work against information control. “Who controls the present now controls the past”. They wouldn’t like archived versions of things get in the way of their very, very expensive narratives they are pushing, now would they?

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        When someone asked the group who claimed responsibility on Twitter, they said this:

        They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.

        Later they made a long Tweet saying even more.

        I’ll be fully honest, I do not get it. At all.
        You’d think they’d be attacking some government website or even FAANG if they really wanted to say something.
        Looking through their feed, seems like most of their attacks are DDOS. Guess IA was one of the few they actually managed to breach.

        Picking on easy targets is lame.

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          Yeah me neither. I don’t think they understand the consequences of their own actions either. All that matters to them is “USA bad, <random pro Palestinian country> good”. They’d probably also burn down the fields in a country they import their food from.

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          When faced with an unstoppable death machine, you don’t attack it is impervious. You savage it were it hurts most.

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            …eh, is IA really where it ‘hurts most’ though?
            Hell, I bet most bigwig company execs would be thrilled if it went down, they’re giving the influential people of the ‘death machine’ a reason to smile.

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        hmm, a faux hacktivist group certainly would be an excellent and easy way for an intelligence agency to try and redirect anger. hypothetically speaking, of course.

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      IA is a pillar of internet activism, and an exceptional instance of the spirit of the web pioneers. No real hacktivist would take them on. These guys are spooks, black hat, or corporate actors.