Post #644701

2026-01-16 02:05 UTC

So the mysterious person behind archive.today is very likely to be &quot;Masha Rabinovich.&quot; A 2023 investigation from Jani Patokallio theorized this much https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ However recently a few things happened over the past few days. A HN user noticed that archive.today visitors are being used in a botnet staging a DDoS attack against Jani&#39;s website, and Jani has received a bogus C&amp;D. Who was the HN user who noticed this? Well... 🧵

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@eb@social.coop 2026-01-16 02:08

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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@amberage@eldritch.cafe 2026-02-15 06:12

@eb@social.coop …they doxxed a deliberately anonymous archivist, who by their own research presumably lives in a nation with very little civil rights, and now they're pissed their victim didn't take that very well? No shit, Sherlock?! What the hell… Also, lol, an AI bro complaining about spam and DDoS is… very ironic, at the very least.

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@sokai@openbiblio.social 2026-02-16 18:21

FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5 #thisallisinsane

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