#web archiving

After learning that AI companies use Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to gather data from websites, Reddit will start to block it from touching the site's posts, comments, and profiles. "Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we’ve been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine," said Tim Rathschmidt, Reddit's spokesperson. Every once in a while, I'd receive text messages or emails from bloggers and website owners asking for advice whenever their site is hacked. Being a blogger myself running dozens of sites and also a web hosting provider, hacking/cracking and other exploits are not new to me. Imagine your server or website is like a house. In order to fully understand this, let me point out some of the more common ways hackers can gain access to your website or server. Older versions of web scripts or applications like WordPress, vBulletin, phpBB, Coppermine Gallery, etc. A lot of government websites have been hacked in the past because their webmasters are so fond of installing the forum script phpBB yet do not update them for months or even years. Read more in our articles including "Reddit to block Internet Archive Wayback Machine" and "Site Hacking and Contingency Plans".