TIL that the operator of archive.today and its mirrors archive.ph/archive.is was caught harassing victims with targeted DDoS attacks and deployed malicious code on the web site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology_report

We should probably stop using this service, which is most popular for archiving and looking up paywalled articles. But what alternatives are there, besides archive.org (which is an important service for the Internet but lacks a good UX for quickly archiving things)?

#archive #archiving

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology report - Wikipedia