Post #2950350
2026-01-16 02:08 UTC
The HN thread discovering this covert attempt was posted by no other than "rabinovich", a user which shares the name of the POI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740
Furthermore, the Masharabinovich Wikipedia account has reactivated for the first time in 10 years to purge their talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Masharabinovich
Now, we still don't know if this Masha Rabinovich is an alias, but the evidence that this person is indeed the creator of archive.is is too great to ignore, and clearly Jani touched a nerve 🧵
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@eb@social.coop 2026-01-16 02:12
But what's really interesting is the motivations. 1. Why now, after 2 years? 2. Why run a DDoS, and yet defend Jani in the comments?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629823 3. Why register for a forum using your "name" to draw attention to a DDoS being ran by *your own site*? This seems like a ploy for attention. Perhaps the FBI has finally found him and Masha wants to go out on his own terms?: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/fbi-subpoena-tries-to-unmask-mysterious-founder-of-archive-today/ Perhaps Masha is a fake name and the real name leaked so he wants to publicize Masha? 🧵