DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder’s identity in 2023. […] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html:
By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger’s URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.
Still not sure I follow but I’ll look again.
“[…] having such a noble and rare name, which in retaliation could be used for the name of a scam project or become a byword for a new category of AI porn…” is a citation of an email from the .today admin to the blogger.
for a 2 year old blog post.
This guy has serious issues, and it’s not only the FBI.
Okay, where does “jarhead” come in from that? I’m missing something here.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jarhead
Oh. TIL.
My brain had it filed under “an aggressive, close-minded person”. I probably read it somewhere in a context with the marines and conflated the expression with the image that the marines sometimes get attributed with - “eating crayons”, being hyperaggressive and stuff like that.
Meets the definition perfectly