• SatyrSack
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    17 hours ago

    Hunt says there are 31 million unique email addresses in the database

    I cannot imagine there are nearly that many individuals with an Internet Archive account. Is there any reason that an average user would need to create an account in the first place? And would someone need to create multiple?

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      16 hours ago

      You need one to create a snapshot, no?

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        15 hours ago

        No, there are just extra features if you are signed in

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          12 hours ago

          Thanks for clarifying!

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    That’d pretty minor

    I’d be more worried about there financial state. Imagine if they were ransomewared