We've been made aware via an Ars Technica article that the creator of archive.today used the site's CAPTCHA page to carry out a DDoS attack against a blogger, modifying select archives to include their name.

These acts of tampering and harassment are an unconscionable attack on the safety of archives everywhere. We extend our sympathies to the blogger, and to the people whose browsers were used in the DDoS attack. Laelaps uses archive.today as its foremost tool for archiving websites, so this affects us directly.

What does this mean for Laelaps?

For now, to access the archive.today links in the evidence document, we recommend you use an adblocker like uBlock Origin, which has blocked the offending script by default. As long as your filters are updated—most people have filters set to auto-update anyway—nothing else is needed on your end.

How will Laelaps' archives work going forward?

We're unable to re-archive links from archive.today's existing snapshots, and may not be able to switch the same existing links to alternatives. However, going forward, new links will use a different online archiving system where possible, and the evidence document along with the form will be updated in accordance.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

— The Laelaps team