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Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives

Latest from Tom's Hardware·@BrunoFerreira·2 months ago
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Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful A few days ago, we covered an eyebrow-raising bit of news about the operator(s) of Archive Today leveraging their website to allegedly execute a denial-of-service attack against Jani Patokallio, a security blogger. At the time, Wikipedia considered dropping all links to Archive Today (AT), a decision argued for and against in open discussion. That decision has quickly been made final thanks to AT altering its own archived pages to fuel its feud. Specifically, AT's maintainers reportedly tweaked snapshots of a third-party blog post that Patokallio referred to in his February 2026 article about the DDoS attack. AT changed the name of a "Nora" person in said post to Jani Patokallio, making it look as if he had written some comments there.…

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