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tl;dr someone found a weakness in the security of archive.is, inserted their own code that made it look like the page wasn't loading, but the page was actually an image hosted at the website of a university that specialises in security. This gave whoever put the image there everyone's IP addresses, because everyone was connecting to their server to download the image from their site.
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[–] New_years_day 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Compromised how?
[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ARCHES 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago (edited ago)
tl;dr someone found a weakness in the security of archive.is, inserted their own code that made it look like the page wasn't loading, but the page was actually an image hosted at the website of a university that specialises in security. This gave whoever put the image there everyone's IP addresses, because everyone was connecting to their server to download the image from their site.
[–] New_years_day 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Thank you for taking the time to type that out.
[–] [deleted] 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
[–] MarxistObama 10 points -6 points 4 points (+4|-10) ago
Jesus fucking Christ. The government needs to seriously fuck off... Actually they don't, because they know people won't do a fucking thing about it.
You people eat shit all day and ask for seconds.