They may be back up and running for now, but I can't help but wonder for how 
long due to their pending legal troubles.

It's a shame that the DOS abandonware they host will be lost to time if they 
get shut down, which seems like less of an "if" and more of a "when" question.




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On Monday, October 14th, 2024 at 11:49 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel 
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > On Oct 14, 2024, at 10:34 AM, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel 
> > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 7:16 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> > > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > Since this happened Thursday and is still ongoing, I guess it is old news.
> > > 
> > > But, I only found out today when I needed to (hopefully) go find some on 
> > > the Wayback Machine.
> > > 
> > > Apparently, the Internet Archive was hacked and gave up about 31 million 
> > > user names and password.
> > 
> > Sheesh! This is why we can't have nice things.
> > 
> > > It also has been undergoing a (D)DOS attack.
> > 
> > Seems like a strangely neutral site to attack.
> 
> 
> Weird and annoying.
> 
> > > Their services are still offline.
> > 
> > It's back up now, apparently (from a quick check).
> 
> 
> I just went to archive.org, says Wayback is up as “provisional and read-only”
> 
> So, they are getting there.
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