FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site

[duxup]

People who steal from Americans get pardons... archive.is gets the the Feds on them.

The current administration would be a good joke if it wasn't real.

[walletdrainer]

FWIW circumventing various paywalls is probably the bad thing archive.is is being investigated for, not the archiving bit.

[dogma1138]

Regardless of this situation I actually think that websites like Archive and TWBM should be fully transparent.

A very large partition of citations in Wikipedia for example relies on them. Most of the pages that cite archived copies do so because the live version is no longer available I would like to have some assurances that archive.is and the likes are not altering their content in any way over time.

Unironically content sensitive hashing of archival pages might be one of the few use cases where something like a blockchain might actually be useful for.

[dpark]

Why would the blockchain be useful here? You don’t need a blockchain to store a hash.

[JumpCrisscross]

> very large partition of citations in Wikipedia for example relies on them

Is the Internet Archive related to archive.is?

[toast0]

The subpoena is for archive.today.

The .is TLD is run by ISNIC and they process registrations directly, and operating out of Iceland, it would be very strange if they took orders from the FBI.

[ChrisArchitect]

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826

[lschueller]

I would bet, even when the fbi is able to track down archive.today, it will be a matter of hours until the archive is shifted to another network and reinstated.. Even though if a certain amount of archived data might be lost, the core service will be rehosted quite fast somewhere else, i would think.

[walletdrainer]

> The subpoena is supposed to be secret

Ars inventing their own colour here. This is simply not true.