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The only named defendant in the Anna's Archive 'WorldCat' hacking lawsuit suggests that the plaintiffs are going after the wrong person.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The defense adds that the similarity between defendant’s social media handle, ‘anarchivist’, and Anna’s Archive is insufficient to support the claims. The same applies to other facts, including her previous occupation as a catalog librarian.

They’re grasping at straws. Viva Anna’s Archive.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit is their "evidence" that this lady is actually responsible for the site pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I always wondered where the name came from. I always assumed it was a real person, like craigslist.

That it's short for Anarchist's archive makes a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I always assumed it was a real person,

The person they have charged in this instance is called "Ana".

Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could be a double meaning and mean both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Oh don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting your theory was incorrect. It could absolutely be both, or one or neither. It's just an interesting coincedence.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website [REDACTED], not only through the subscription FirstSearch interface where it had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than a decade before.

So how is this "hacking" if the information is publicly accessible for all?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

They really wanna pull an Aaron Swartz again didn't they?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This is the GutHub project by the way:

https://github.com/anarchivist/worldcat

Clearly, a project whose last commit was 12 years ago should be more than enough evidence that she hacked WorldCat.