10-09-2024, 11:54 PM
DATA DEGRADATION AND THE DISAPPEARING INTERNET
October 4, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell
You might want to pour yourself a couple of fingers of your favorite adult beverage, sit down, and brace yourself before reading the following article shared by T.S. (with our gratitude). It seems that data degradation (the shock! the surprise! the horror!) is occurring on the internet, and data is simply disappearing for what appears to be no good reason:
Internet is disappearing and experts are shocked: Billions of web pages at risk by a strange phenomenon
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/internet-ar...tent/6813/
The crisis, when one digs a bit into the article, is in a certain sense rather predictable and mundane, and indeed, I myself have been a victim of some of the problems the following quotation outlines:
At the forefront of the fight to preserve this digital heritage is the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping our online past alive.
Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive is one of the most significant undertakings in digital preservation. As a comprehensive digital library, it stores web pages, books, videos, and more. To date, the archive has preserved a staggering 866 billion web pages, 44 million books, and 10.6 million videos.
Its most recognized feature, the Wayback Machine, lets users revisit deleted or altered websites, offering a glimpse into the past through a unique “time machine for the Internet.” But this monumental effort faces severe challenges.
Financial, technological, and legal hurdles threaten the Internet Archive’s mission. In 2023, the organization suffered a major legal blow when a court ruled against its digitization and lending of books, accusing it of violating copyright laws. This ruling not only hinders its book preservation efforts but also casts doubt on the future of its broader mission.
Moreover, the Internet Archive faces significant technical vulnerabilities. In May 2024, the organization experienced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, exposing its susceptibility to cyber threats. Should the Archive fail, a significant portion of the digital world as we know it may be lost forever. (Italicized emphasis added, boldface emphasis in the original.)
But there's something else, and that is simply the ability to keep up and archive everything before data degradation - whether inadvertent or deliberate - occurs:
Digital decay is not just limited to aging websites or forgotten blogs. According to the Pew Research Center, an alarming 9% of web pages created between 2013 and 2023 have already disappeared. These include crucial government information, news articles, and academic references.
Wikipedia, one of the most heavily used online resources, is plagued by “link rot,” where more than half of its articles contain at least one broken link. This phenomenon, called “link rot,” happens when hyperlinks break or their target websites no longer exist. But this is not merely an inconvenience; it’s a profound loss of our society’s collective memory.
Researchers, historians, and everyday users will find it increasingly difficult to access the information that forms the backbone of our understanding of the recent past. The problem extends beyond traditional websites. Social media platforms, which have become central to modern communication, are also vulnerable.
For instance, 15% of tweets are deleted within months of posting, and entire social media accounts can vanish with a simple click. This ephemeral nature of digital content underscores the urgent need for comprehensive archiving efforts to preserve our history.
Notice that lurking behind all of this is that Data degradation can be "assisted" in a variety of ways, but it all boils down to Catherine Austin Fitt's aphorism that "No cyber system is secure."
Translation:
No cyber system of data storage is either secure or permanent, since it can be altered or deleted at the push of a button, like the deletion of an entire planet from the digital computerized "Jedi library" in the second (prequel) episode of Star Wars.
Still think a cashless, paperless, completely digital system of finance, record-keeping, and most importantly, historiography, is a good idea?
So once again, for all those who have not yet caught on: The only canonical version of any of my works - and my extension, anyone else's - is the hardcopy book. Any deviation of any electronic copy from the formatting and wording contents of the original must bow to the primary copy. Only it is - so to speak - legal tender...
Be smart. Use cash. read books. Don't use the facsimile of either.
Bizantura on October 4, 2024 at 5:29 am
As horrid as it is, people learn the most via direct experience. Take a lot of comfort away for a period of time like electricity, oil and gas and people understand instantly. To date, that is being used on small scales to kill people and rob all their stuff. For the moment I have been lucky and never experienced any of those for long periods of time. Preparedness physically is not the same as psychologically. I can’t imagine what some people on the planet are going thru, whatever the means used!
Billy Bob on October 4, 2024 at 8:16 am
I use the Internet Archive website to verify the existence and validity of certain information I encounter. With books, the number of times where there is an entry with a few of the first pages and marked “Unavailable to loan” is becoming more common. That usually means the book is caught up in the copyright infringement ruling that disallows lending of the book other than through a brick and mortar library per the copyright owner. Unfortunately many books encountered are stamped “Withdrawn” from various libraries book stacks which would reduce the chances of any inter library requests to be fulfilled, essentially creating a memory hole for a hard copy. Coupled with both unable to read on the website and no longer available in the inter library loan program, the information is gone except for those who already own a copy of the book.
Luckily those folks many times have a used copy for sale on the Internet somewhere, so I buy one if the price isn’t outrageous. My theory is if someone went through all that trouble to “hide a book”, it must be rather interesting, especially if the book is encountered in a controversial subject.
Michael UK on October 4, 2024 at 8:30 am
The trouble with books is they burn easily. The two greatest
libraries of the ancient world – Alexandria and Pergamum were likely destroyed by fire. Papyrus and parchment are vulnerable. So are books.
https://time.com/5912689/library-of-alexandria-burning/
Likewise stone, see temples in Egypt where hieroglyphs have been erased.
It has been widely reported that DNA is the most secure medium for storing and replicating data and messages and can possibly survive for billions of years traversing the Cosmos. (panspermia).
DNA information and data storage.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-024-00576-4
oliveyes on October 6, 2024 at 11:20 am
They already do use our DNA as storage. Think of it. How would you even know?
Think of the potential of human beings themselves as a source of electromagnetic energies. Think about the Matrix movie.
I think about it when I review their own bloody white papers on DNA Steganography. The human being is the most secure form of storage.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...019-1930-1
This is how they see us. As a source of energy and storing files.
Isn’t it grand?
pmchenry on October 4, 2024 at 9:44 am
My colleagues in embedded systems engineering and I, who use computers to do our work and also embed them in our work, have spoken regularly from some of my earliest days in the profession (some thirty years or more ago now) of a phenomenon we call “bit rot.” We use it as a catch-all term for the slow-but-inevitable degradation that occurs in all computer-based systems. Sometimes it is simple entropy – e.g., the fragmentation, over time, of a disk or other storage medium. Sometimes it is literal ‘bit rot.’ Exposure to a magnetic field or a stray cosmic ray ‘flips’ a random bit in the middle of some stored file, leading to ‘dead pixels’ in an image or video, or the occasional unexpected “this file is corrupt and cannot be read” message – just another, more fundamentally physical form of entropy. Technologies like RAID (redundant array of independent disks) can only alleviate this to a degree.
Multiple physically redundant copies of everything, securely stored in widely separated, environmentally and electromagnetically controlled environments with protocols for regular testing to detect and correct (if possible) corruption would be needed to come anywhere close to guaranteeing preservation of our digital history. Given the vast scale of what’s already on the internet, imagine the amount of storage needed for multiple copies of all of it – at least three, so that a voting scheme could be employed in error correction. Frankly, little to nothing I’ve seen on social media is worth this effort, and many might take some comfort in knowing that the things they’ve posted are not really “forever” as they may have been admonished from time to time.
Robert Barricklow on October 4, 2024 at 10:54 am
I like to post comments as I read your blog.
OPERATION: MEMORY HOLE
Are “they’re” scrubbing the record of these times: the internet?
Scrubbing; while sanitizing?
First order of business: remove truths?.
Second order of business: strengthen current narrative?
[continue to read blog]
Loved the “Wayback Machine”: a time machine for the internet.
Lawfare is a wicked tool of the wizards fighting tradition.
Using the color of law to brush away unpleasant truths of authoritative powers.
Or, information running counter to agreed-upon-fables[narratives].
This link rot” or overall degradation, maybe full under the umbrella of what I term: mass observer experiments[CERN, and other like concerns]?
And/or a “natural” process of digitized information?.
From my perspective I want to know: How much is purposed?
How much is let it happen?
How much is “real”?
And what of the globalist’s darling: digital money?
Your conclusion; is the only safe bet.
But any bet, is still a bet.
There are those that want to burn not only digital records, but the physical as well.
The only saving grace, is that those who burn the analogue records –
like to keep a secret copy for themselves
Marco Fredriks on October 4, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Could it all be tokenized on the blockchain? For sometime I think the whole concept of the blockchain is the new version of Noah’s Arc from the bible.
Richard on October 4, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Strange phenomenon?. . . . . More akin to an ephemeral electronic displacement of electromagnetically influenced spaces in motion.
Ever since the dot matrix printers came of age decades ago one had a problem of how to archive reams of printed paper. Ran out of desk space first then table space then shelf space and then wall spaces.
It wasn’t until one started running out of floor space that it came to mind that something has to be done about saving spaces for all that worded stuff. It’s still a problem yet one also maintains the need to establish hard copy printed materials despite the [space] problem.
As if that weren’t enough issues about environmental spaces became another factor in how to archive printed materials without discovering paper rot from high humidity as was often the case in England. At times mildew forced the need to [re-print] important printed pages or copy them (when the Zerox became available) before they were illegible. It was a real gift when manual typewriters became electronic and were, strictly speaking, a word processor/ typewriter that printed out a [saved-to-floppy-disk] page with actual type print not that fuzzy dot matrix sprawl of ink. Panasonic made such a model back in the late 1980’s. It saved a bunch of time, had easily correctable programming (allowed one to view the intended print page by way of a view screen before actually committing to print), and was portable in an oversized suitcase. It’s only draw back was that it required an electrical outlet to power the Mini processor it contained and the small screen. Gone were the needs of white-out correction tape or messy white spills and smears on a finished product as well as the finger dirtying carbon page fillers since one could print multiple clean pages and only make carbon copies after the electronic edits were finished.
In one’s view, audio playback (preferred), electronic book devices, and digital copies are all good so long as one has the hard copy print on a shelf (usually as a stack today) as a reliable primary source. Hard copy prints forces the individual to deal with those other add-on trivialities of storing inked on cellulose.
Kevin Ryan on October 5, 2024 at 10:59 am
How comforting, to hear that the digital basket we are encouraged to use for information storage and financial transactions is in fact a sieve, or worse. On top of data mining and surveillance capitalism, not to mention surveillance itself, we have disinformation, misinformation, and destruction of data by hacking, we have an internet susceptible to bit or link rot as if dementia and Alzheimers have appeared prematurely in a relatively young internet. We’ve been warned for decades not to put all our eggs in one basket and yet, here we are, embracing the basket of the internet as if it were the Fort Knox of our dreams. Yes, libraries may be burned and paper books may rot, but how much easier to achieve that when its online or in data storage. If it is in secure data storage, it is no more secure than the people who control that security. When the fist of a tyrant comes along, kiss that security goodbye. And imagine that this is the hackable internet “microchipped” humans are being encouraged to link with lest we be left behind by those who have seemingly gained superhuman abilities (at least initially) as the “new and improved!” human being. That’s the bait. We will be told all problems that deter internet merger will be fixed with an update or patch or whatever. Is the chipped human the one who bears the mark of the beast? And on a related note, the Nag Hamadi papyrus texts buried for 1400 years to save them from destruction by the library-burning powers afoot warned about worshipping a false god whose light was a torch for burning books and those who refused to believe the dogma of the day. Those texts were an SOS and warning as valid today as when they were first buried. Books may not be the perfect medium, but how lasting is our access, as individuals, to what is on the internet?
https://gizadeathstar.com/2024/10/data-d...-internet/
Internet is disappearing and experts are shocked: Billions of web pages at risk by a strange phenomenon
The Internet, once thought to be an eternal archive of human wisdom, is becoming increasingly unstable. New research reveals that a growing portion of the web is disappearing, leaving behind a vast, empty void.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an alarming 39% of all active web pages from 2013 have already vanished. Even newer pages are rapidly disappearing, raising serious concerns. This phenomenon leads to a chilling question: can we maintain the Internet for future generations, or is our digital history at risk of permanent loss?
At the forefront of the fight to preserve this digital heritage is the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping our online past alive.
The Internet Archive (aka the WAYBACK MACHINE) is under DDoS attack yet again, with a popup claiming a 'catastrophic' breach
https://www.disclose.tv/id/yz0kcplbq0/
The Internet Archive briefly displayed a pop-up on Wednesday claiming the site had been hacked. By 5:30 PM ET, the pop-up disappeared, but the site went fully offline with a message stating, “Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.”
Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The pop-up warned about a potential security breach, where 31 million users' data would eventually appear on Have I Been Pwned?, a service checking data leaks.
Archivist Jason Scott indicated the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, stating it was done "just because they can." An account named SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility and hinted at future attacks. The organization is being contacted for more information.
Background info about SN_Blackmeta, a pro-Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for taking down the Internet Archive
So, if this group of (supposedly) pro-Palestinian hackers is behind many of these DDoS attacks, why would they target the Internet Archive? And how did they gain access to military-grade technology?
-NW
SN_BLACKMETA Launched Record-Breaking Six-Day DDoS Attack
https://cyberinsider.com/record-breaking...stitution/
By Alex Lekander | cyberinsider
July 24, 2024
A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack campaign has been attributed to the hacktivist group SN_BLACKMETA, targeting a financial institution in the Middle East. Over six days, the attack sustained an average of 4.5 million requests per second (RPS), peaking at an unprecedented 14.7 million RPS.
The DDoS attack campaign, documented by Radware, consisted of multiple waves spanning four to twenty hours each, culminating in 100 hours of sustained attack time. Despite the barrage, Radware’s Web DDoS Protection Services successfully mitigated over 1.25 trillion malicious requests, allowing 1.5 billion legitimate requests to proceed.
DDoS attack overview
Radware
Attribution to SN_BLACKMETA
The attack was publicly announced by SN_BLACKMETA on its Telegram channel days prior to its execution. This group, with potential ties to Sudan and operating possibly from Russia, has a history of targeting entities seen as adversaries to the Palestinian cause. SN_BLACKMETA has utilized the InfraShutdown premium DDoS-for-hire service, which boasts military-grade privacy and nation-state level disruption capabilities.
SN_BLACKMETA emerged on the cyber warfare scene on November 14, 2023, with an ideological stance supporting the Palestinian cause. The group quickly escalated its activities, targeting infrastructures across Israel, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and beyond. Key attacks included those on the International Airport of Azrael and the Saudi Ministry of Defense.
In early 2024, SN_BLACKMETA expanded its operations to include targets in France, UAE, and significant Western entities such as Microsoft and the Internet Archive. The group is led by the figure known as “Great Leader DarkMeta,” who uses social media to publicize and validate their attacks, thereby boosting the group's visibility and support.
SN_BLACKMETA's attacks often align with those previously claimed by Anonymous Sudan, another pro-Palestinian hacktivist group. Both share similar ideological motivations, target selections, and attack methodologies. The timing and nature of their attacks suggest a potential overlap or collaboration between the groups.
The origins of SN_BLACKMETA may be linked to the ongoing conflict in Sudan, which has seen the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clash with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The group’s animosity towards the UAE could be driven by allegations of UAE’s support for the RSF, a claim denied by the UAE but one that aligns with SN_BLACKMETA’s target choices.
Launched by Anonymous Sudan, the InfraShutdown service markets itself as a top-tier DDoS-for-hire service, capable of executing high-scale RPS Web DDoS attacks. This service is likely the source of the recent attack on the Middle Eastern financial institution, given its capacity and sophistication.
Implications and recommendations
The SN_BLACKMETA attack demonstrates the evolving threat landscape of cyber warfare. To defend against such sophisticated and prolonged DDoS attacks, organizations must employ robust Web DDoS mitigation solutions with substantial capacity and advanced differentiation capabilities.
Key defensive measures include:
Deploying high-capacity DDoS protection services capable of handling peak traffic volumes and sustained attack rates.
Ensuring rapid differentiation of legitimate traffic to maintain service availability during an attack.
Regularly updating defense mechanisms to stay ahead of emerging threats and attack methodologies.
The rise of groups like SN_BLACKMETA underscores the importance of understanding and preparing for ideologically motivated cyber threats, which continue to target critical infrastructures globally.
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/fo...ead=247203
October 4, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell
You might want to pour yourself a couple of fingers of your favorite adult beverage, sit down, and brace yourself before reading the following article shared by T.S. (with our gratitude). It seems that data degradation (the shock! the surprise! the horror!) is occurring on the internet, and data is simply disappearing for what appears to be no good reason:
Internet is disappearing and experts are shocked: Billions of web pages at risk by a strange phenomenon
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/internet-ar...tent/6813/
Quote:How the Internet Archive is battling time, law, and technology to preserve our digital past
Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive is one of the most significant undertakings in digital preservation. As a comprehensive digital library, it stores web pages, books, videos, and more. To date, the archive has preserved a staggering 866 billion web pages, 44 million books, and 10.6 million videos.
Its most recognized feature, the Wayback Machine, lets users revisit deleted or altered websites, offering a glimpse into the past through a unique “time machine for the Internet.” But this monumental effort faces severe challenges.
Financial, technological, and legal hurdles threaten the Internet Archive’s mission. In 2023, the organization suffered a major legal blow when a court ruled against its digitization and lending of books, accusing it of violating copyright laws. This ruling not only hinders its book preservation efforts but also casts doubt on the future of its broader mission.
Moreover, the Internet Archive faces significant technical vulnerabilities. In May 2024, the organization experienced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, exposing its susceptibility to cyber threats. Should the Archive fail, a significant portion of the digital world as we know it may be lost forever.
Digital decay and why the disappearance of online content is a global crisis
Digital decay is not just limited to aging websites or forgotten blogs. According to the Pew Research Center, an alarming 9% of web pages created between 2013 and 2023 have already disappeared. These include crucial government information, news articles, and academic references.
Wikipedia, one of the most heavily used online resources, is plagued by “link rot,” where more than half of its articles contain at least one broken link. This phenomenon, called “link rot,” happens when hyperlinks break or their target websites no longer exist. But this is not merely an inconvenience; it’s a profound loss of our society’s collective memory.
Researchers, historians, and everyday users will find it increasingly difficult to access the information that forms the backbone of our understanding of the recent past. The problem extends beyond traditional websites. Social media platforms, which have become central to modern communication, are also vulnerable.
For instance, 15% of tweets are deleted within months of posting, and entire social media accounts can vanish with a simple click. This ephemeral nature of digital content underscores the urgent need for comprehensive archiving efforts to preserve our history.
How governments, organizations, and individuals can help secure our digital future
While organizations like the Internet Archive are leading the charge to preserve digital history, the responsibility should not fall solely on their shoulders. Both governments and private institutions must play a part in safeguarding digital content. Implementing public policies that mandate the preservation of critical digital resources, much like the policies that exist for books and physical documents, would be an essential step forward.
Moreover, individuals can also take part in these preservation efforts. Simple actions such as backing up important data, saving web pages, and contributing to archiving projects can make a difference. In this era of rapidly disappearing digital information, it is more important than ever to ensure the survival of our online heritage for future generations to study, reference, and understand.
The crisis, when one digs a bit into the article, is in a certain sense rather predictable and mundane, and indeed, I myself have been a victim of some of the problems the following quotation outlines:
At the forefront of the fight to preserve this digital heritage is the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping our online past alive.
Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive is one of the most significant undertakings in digital preservation. As a comprehensive digital library, it stores web pages, books, videos, and more. To date, the archive has preserved a staggering 866 billion web pages, 44 million books, and 10.6 million videos.
Its most recognized feature, the Wayback Machine, lets users revisit deleted or altered websites, offering a glimpse into the past through a unique “time machine for the Internet.” But this monumental effort faces severe challenges.
Financial, technological, and legal hurdles threaten the Internet Archive’s mission. In 2023, the organization suffered a major legal blow when a court ruled against its digitization and lending of books, accusing it of violating copyright laws. This ruling not only hinders its book preservation efforts but also casts doubt on the future of its broader mission.
Moreover, the Internet Archive faces significant technical vulnerabilities. In May 2024, the organization experienced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, exposing its susceptibility to cyber threats. Should the Archive fail, a significant portion of the digital world as we know it may be lost forever. (Italicized emphasis added, boldface emphasis in the original.)
But there's something else, and that is simply the ability to keep up and archive everything before data degradation - whether inadvertent or deliberate - occurs:
Digital decay is not just limited to aging websites or forgotten blogs. According to the Pew Research Center, an alarming 9% of web pages created between 2013 and 2023 have already disappeared. These include crucial government information, news articles, and academic references.
Wikipedia, one of the most heavily used online resources, is plagued by “link rot,” where more than half of its articles contain at least one broken link. This phenomenon, called “link rot,” happens when hyperlinks break or their target websites no longer exist. But this is not merely an inconvenience; it’s a profound loss of our society’s collective memory.
Researchers, historians, and everyday users will find it increasingly difficult to access the information that forms the backbone of our understanding of the recent past. The problem extends beyond traditional websites. Social media platforms, which have become central to modern communication, are also vulnerable.
For instance, 15% of tweets are deleted within months of posting, and entire social media accounts can vanish with a simple click. This ephemeral nature of digital content underscores the urgent need for comprehensive archiving efforts to preserve our history.
Notice that lurking behind all of this is that Data degradation can be "assisted" in a variety of ways, but it all boils down to Catherine Austin Fitt's aphorism that "No cyber system is secure."
Translation:
No cyber system of data storage is either secure or permanent, since it can be altered or deleted at the push of a button, like the deletion of an entire planet from the digital computerized "Jedi library" in the second (prequel) episode of Star Wars.
Still think a cashless, paperless, completely digital system of finance, record-keeping, and most importantly, historiography, is a good idea?
So once again, for all those who have not yet caught on: The only canonical version of any of my works - and my extension, anyone else's - is the hardcopy book. Any deviation of any electronic copy from the formatting and wording contents of the original must bow to the primary copy. Only it is - so to speak - legal tender...
Be smart. Use cash. read books. Don't use the facsimile of either.
Bizantura on October 4, 2024 at 5:29 am
As horrid as it is, people learn the most via direct experience. Take a lot of comfort away for a period of time like electricity, oil and gas and people understand instantly. To date, that is being used on small scales to kill people and rob all their stuff. For the moment I have been lucky and never experienced any of those for long periods of time. Preparedness physically is not the same as psychologically. I can’t imagine what some people on the planet are going thru, whatever the means used!
Billy Bob on October 4, 2024 at 8:16 am
I use the Internet Archive website to verify the existence and validity of certain information I encounter. With books, the number of times where there is an entry with a few of the first pages and marked “Unavailable to loan” is becoming more common. That usually means the book is caught up in the copyright infringement ruling that disallows lending of the book other than through a brick and mortar library per the copyright owner. Unfortunately many books encountered are stamped “Withdrawn” from various libraries book stacks which would reduce the chances of any inter library requests to be fulfilled, essentially creating a memory hole for a hard copy. Coupled with both unable to read on the website and no longer available in the inter library loan program, the information is gone except for those who already own a copy of the book.
Luckily those folks many times have a used copy for sale on the Internet somewhere, so I buy one if the price isn’t outrageous. My theory is if someone went through all that trouble to “hide a book”, it must be rather interesting, especially if the book is encountered in a controversial subject.
Michael UK on October 4, 2024 at 8:30 am
The trouble with books is they burn easily. The two greatest
libraries of the ancient world – Alexandria and Pergamum were likely destroyed by fire. Papyrus and parchment are vulnerable. So are books.
https://time.com/5912689/library-of-alexandria-burning/
Likewise stone, see temples in Egypt where hieroglyphs have been erased.
It has been widely reported that DNA is the most secure medium for storing and replicating data and messages and can possibly survive for billions of years traversing the Cosmos. (panspermia).
DNA information and data storage.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-024-00576-4
oliveyes on October 6, 2024 at 11:20 am
They already do use our DNA as storage. Think of it. How would you even know?
Think of the potential of human beings themselves as a source of electromagnetic energies. Think about the Matrix movie.
I think about it when I review their own bloody white papers on DNA Steganography. The human being is the most secure form of storage.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...019-1930-1
This is how they see us. As a source of energy and storing files.
Isn’t it grand?
pmchenry on October 4, 2024 at 9:44 am
My colleagues in embedded systems engineering and I, who use computers to do our work and also embed them in our work, have spoken regularly from some of my earliest days in the profession (some thirty years or more ago now) of a phenomenon we call “bit rot.” We use it as a catch-all term for the slow-but-inevitable degradation that occurs in all computer-based systems. Sometimes it is simple entropy – e.g., the fragmentation, over time, of a disk or other storage medium. Sometimes it is literal ‘bit rot.’ Exposure to a magnetic field or a stray cosmic ray ‘flips’ a random bit in the middle of some stored file, leading to ‘dead pixels’ in an image or video, or the occasional unexpected “this file is corrupt and cannot be read” message – just another, more fundamentally physical form of entropy. Technologies like RAID (redundant array of independent disks) can only alleviate this to a degree.
Multiple physically redundant copies of everything, securely stored in widely separated, environmentally and electromagnetically controlled environments with protocols for regular testing to detect and correct (if possible) corruption would be needed to come anywhere close to guaranteeing preservation of our digital history. Given the vast scale of what’s already on the internet, imagine the amount of storage needed for multiple copies of all of it – at least three, so that a voting scheme could be employed in error correction. Frankly, little to nothing I’ve seen on social media is worth this effort, and many might take some comfort in knowing that the things they’ve posted are not really “forever” as they may have been admonished from time to time.
Robert Barricklow on October 4, 2024 at 10:54 am
I like to post comments as I read your blog.
OPERATION: MEMORY HOLE
Are “they’re” scrubbing the record of these times: the internet?
Scrubbing; while sanitizing?
First order of business: remove truths?.
Second order of business: strengthen current narrative?
[continue to read blog]
Loved the “Wayback Machine”: a time machine for the internet.
Lawfare is a wicked tool of the wizards fighting tradition.
Using the color of law to brush away unpleasant truths of authoritative powers.
Or, information running counter to agreed-upon-fables[narratives].
This link rot” or overall degradation, maybe full under the umbrella of what I term: mass observer experiments[CERN, and other like concerns]?
And/or a “natural” process of digitized information?.
From my perspective I want to know: How much is purposed?
How much is let it happen?
How much is “real”?
And what of the globalist’s darling: digital money?
Your conclusion; is the only safe bet.
But any bet, is still a bet.
There are those that want to burn not only digital records, but the physical as well.
The only saving grace, is that those who burn the analogue records –
like to keep a secret copy for themselves
Marco Fredriks on October 4, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Could it all be tokenized on the blockchain? For sometime I think the whole concept of the blockchain is the new version of Noah’s Arc from the bible.
Richard on October 4, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Strange phenomenon?. . . . . More akin to an ephemeral electronic displacement of electromagnetically influenced spaces in motion.
Ever since the dot matrix printers came of age decades ago one had a problem of how to archive reams of printed paper. Ran out of desk space first then table space then shelf space and then wall spaces.
It wasn’t until one started running out of floor space that it came to mind that something has to be done about saving spaces for all that worded stuff. It’s still a problem yet one also maintains the need to establish hard copy printed materials despite the [space] problem.
As if that weren’t enough issues about environmental spaces became another factor in how to archive printed materials without discovering paper rot from high humidity as was often the case in England. At times mildew forced the need to [re-print] important printed pages or copy them (when the Zerox became available) before they were illegible. It was a real gift when manual typewriters became electronic and were, strictly speaking, a word processor/ typewriter that printed out a [saved-to-floppy-disk] page with actual type print not that fuzzy dot matrix sprawl of ink. Panasonic made such a model back in the late 1980’s. It saved a bunch of time, had easily correctable programming (allowed one to view the intended print page by way of a view screen before actually committing to print), and was portable in an oversized suitcase. It’s only draw back was that it required an electrical outlet to power the Mini processor it contained and the small screen. Gone were the needs of white-out correction tape or messy white spills and smears on a finished product as well as the finger dirtying carbon page fillers since one could print multiple clean pages and only make carbon copies after the electronic edits were finished.
In one’s view, audio playback (preferred), electronic book devices, and digital copies are all good so long as one has the hard copy print on a shelf (usually as a stack today) as a reliable primary source. Hard copy prints forces the individual to deal with those other add-on trivialities of storing inked on cellulose.
Kevin Ryan on October 5, 2024 at 10:59 am
How comforting, to hear that the digital basket we are encouraged to use for information storage and financial transactions is in fact a sieve, or worse. On top of data mining and surveillance capitalism, not to mention surveillance itself, we have disinformation, misinformation, and destruction of data by hacking, we have an internet susceptible to bit or link rot as if dementia and Alzheimers have appeared prematurely in a relatively young internet. We’ve been warned for decades not to put all our eggs in one basket and yet, here we are, embracing the basket of the internet as if it were the Fort Knox of our dreams. Yes, libraries may be burned and paper books may rot, but how much easier to achieve that when its online or in data storage. If it is in secure data storage, it is no more secure than the people who control that security. When the fist of a tyrant comes along, kiss that security goodbye. And imagine that this is the hackable internet “microchipped” humans are being encouraged to link with lest we be left behind by those who have seemingly gained superhuman abilities (at least initially) as the “new and improved!” human being. That’s the bait. We will be told all problems that deter internet merger will be fixed with an update or patch or whatever. Is the chipped human the one who bears the mark of the beast? And on a related note, the Nag Hamadi papyrus texts buried for 1400 years to save them from destruction by the library-burning powers afoot warned about worshipping a false god whose light was a torch for burning books and those who refused to believe the dogma of the day. Those texts were an SOS and warning as valid today as when they were first buried. Books may not be the perfect medium, but how lasting is our access, as individuals, to what is on the internet?
https://gizadeathstar.com/2024/10/data-d...-internet/
Internet is disappearing and experts are shocked: Billions of web pages at risk by a strange phenomenon
The Internet, once thought to be an eternal archive of human wisdom, is becoming increasingly unstable. New research reveals that a growing portion of the web is disappearing, leaving behind a vast, empty void.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an alarming 39% of all active web pages from 2013 have already vanished. Even newer pages are rapidly disappearing, raising serious concerns. This phenomenon leads to a chilling question: can we maintain the Internet for future generations, or is our digital history at risk of permanent loss?
At the forefront of the fight to preserve this digital heritage is the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping our online past alive.
The Internet Archive (aka the WAYBACK MACHINE) is under DDoS attack yet again, with a popup claiming a 'catastrophic' breach
https://www.disclose.tv/id/yz0kcplbq0/
The Internet Archive briefly displayed a pop-up on Wednesday claiming the site had been hacked. By 5:30 PM ET, the pop-up disappeared, but the site went fully offline with a message stating, “Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.”
Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The pop-up warned about a potential security breach, where 31 million users' data would eventually appear on Have I Been Pwned?, a service checking data leaks.
Archivist Jason Scott indicated the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, stating it was done "just because they can." An account named SN_Blackmeta claimed responsibility and hinted at future attacks. The organization is being contacted for more information.
Background info about SN_Blackmeta, a pro-Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for taking down the Internet Archive
So, if this group of (supposedly) pro-Palestinian hackers is behind many of these DDoS attacks, why would they target the Internet Archive? And how did they gain access to military-grade technology?
-NW
SN_BLACKMETA Launched Record-Breaking Six-Day DDoS Attack
https://cyberinsider.com/record-breaking...stitution/
By Alex Lekander | cyberinsider
July 24, 2024
A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack campaign has been attributed to the hacktivist group SN_BLACKMETA, targeting a financial institution in the Middle East. Over six days, the attack sustained an average of 4.5 million requests per second (RPS), peaking at an unprecedented 14.7 million RPS.
The DDoS attack campaign, documented by Radware, consisted of multiple waves spanning four to twenty hours each, culminating in 100 hours of sustained attack time. Despite the barrage, Radware’s Web DDoS Protection Services successfully mitigated over 1.25 trillion malicious requests, allowing 1.5 billion legitimate requests to proceed.
DDoS attack overview
Radware
Attribution to SN_BLACKMETA
The attack was publicly announced by SN_BLACKMETA on its Telegram channel days prior to its execution. This group, with potential ties to Sudan and operating possibly from Russia, has a history of targeting entities seen as adversaries to the Palestinian cause. SN_BLACKMETA has utilized the InfraShutdown premium DDoS-for-hire service, which boasts military-grade privacy and nation-state level disruption capabilities.
SN_BLACKMETA emerged on the cyber warfare scene on November 14, 2023, with an ideological stance supporting the Palestinian cause. The group quickly escalated its activities, targeting infrastructures across Israel, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and beyond. Key attacks included those on the International Airport of Azrael and the Saudi Ministry of Defense.
In early 2024, SN_BLACKMETA expanded its operations to include targets in France, UAE, and significant Western entities such as Microsoft and the Internet Archive. The group is led by the figure known as “Great Leader DarkMeta,” who uses social media to publicize and validate their attacks, thereby boosting the group's visibility and support.
SN_BLACKMETA's attacks often align with those previously claimed by Anonymous Sudan, another pro-Palestinian hacktivist group. Both share similar ideological motivations, target selections, and attack methodologies. The timing and nature of their attacks suggest a potential overlap or collaboration between the groups.
The origins of SN_BLACKMETA may be linked to the ongoing conflict in Sudan, which has seen the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clash with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The group’s animosity towards the UAE could be driven by allegations of UAE’s support for the RSF, a claim denied by the UAE but one that aligns with SN_BLACKMETA’s target choices.
Launched by Anonymous Sudan, the InfraShutdown service markets itself as a top-tier DDoS-for-hire service, capable of executing high-scale RPS Web DDoS attacks. This service is likely the source of the recent attack on the Middle Eastern financial institution, given its capacity and sophistication.
Implications and recommendations
The SN_BLACKMETA attack demonstrates the evolving threat landscape of cyber warfare. To defend against such sophisticated and prolonged DDoS attacks, organizations must employ robust Web DDoS mitigation solutions with substantial capacity and advanced differentiation capabilities.
Key defensive measures include:
Deploying high-capacity DDoS protection services capable of handling peak traffic volumes and sustained attack rates.
Ensuring rapid differentiation of legitimate traffic to maintain service availability during an attack.
Regularly updating defense mechanisms to stay ahead of emerging threats and attack methodologies.
The rise of groups like SN_BLACKMETA underscores the importance of understanding and preparing for ideologically motivated cyber threats, which continue to target critical infrastructures globally.
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/fo...ead=247203