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points by qingcharles 1 day ago | 0 comments
This sounds like the same hack that took over btdig.com -- some weird sort of region-based redirect that doesn't affect everyone.

[in fact, I just tried btdig.com and it tried to redirect me to the same site: guillible-thanks.com or whatever]

[–] iam-py-test 14 hours ago
btdig wasn't hacked. The owner (same person at AT) added an advertising redirect in July.
[–] qingcharles 14 hours ago
How are you determining that they have the same owner?
[–] iam-py-test 13 hours ago
There is a lot of shared infrastructure between archive.today and btdig.com. For example, btdig is often hosted on the same IP as AT. The sites engage in the same behavior. Both sites engaged in DDoS attacks against gyrovague.com earlier this year. In June, both sites redirected Wikipedia users to Tehran Times. In July, both sites started redirecting to advertising sites. I have other evidence I can't share publicly, but the public evidence alone is sufficient to confirm a link.
[–] qingcharles 10 hours ago
Interesting. I didn't know that, thank you.