Cloudflare and the Internet Archive are now working together to help make the web more reliable. Websites that enable Cloudflare’s Always Online service will now have their content automatically archived, and if by chance the original host is not available to Cloudflare, then the Internet Archive will step in to make sure the pages get through to users. From a report:…
Tag: Archiving
GitHub Buries Giant Open-Source Archive In An Arctic Vault
Microsoft-owned GitHub has finally moved its snapshot of all active public repositories on the site to a vault in Norway. ZDNet reports: GiHub announced the archiving plan last November and on February 20 followed through with the 21 terabyte snapshot written to 186 reels of film. GitHub cancelled plans for a team to “personally escort the world’s open-source code to the…
A Billion Medical Images Are Exposed Online, As Doctors Ignore Warnings
Insecure storage systems being used by hundreds of hospitals, medical offices and imaging centers are exposing over 1 billion medical images of patients across the world. “Yet despite warnings from security researchers who have spent weeks alerting hospitals and doctors’ offices to the problem, many have ignored their warnings and continue to expose their patients’ private health information,” writes Zack Whittaker…
GIF Site Gfycat Announces Mass Deletions, Threatens Archive Team With Lawsuit
Gfycat is threatening to sue Archive Team for archiving the site’s old, anonymously-posted images that are marked for deletion. Gfycat’s CEO, Dan McEleney, says archiving the memes it hosts is a “denial of service attack” and demands compensation. From a report: The fallout is ongoing on Twitter, with users of the site panicking about their old content and the company asking…