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For the thousandth time, don’t use archive.ph/archive.is/archive.today, THEY ARE ATTACK SITES.

Not everyone might be aware of what you are talking about. Would prefer some Context

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275373

There’s still no evidence that the malicious PDFs were planted by archive.today. The source could have served malicious content to the crawler, no?

The site was/is used to DDoS other sites. This is the first time I’ve seen anyone mention PDFs so you might be trying to mislead people.

This was still somewhat fresh on the feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275373

About the DDoS, were they not aimed at someone trying to dox the maintainer and pretty much ruin their life? Sounds like defending to me, not attacking. I have absolutely no problem contributing my bandwidth to their defense while visiting the site.

It was someone revealing that the site is run by a Russian person.

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