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Key Defendant in Anna's Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement With the Site * TorrentFreak

torrentfreak.com Key Defendant in Anna's Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement With the Site * TorrentFreak

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

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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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.
- Holy shit is their "evidence" that this lady is actually responsible for the site pathetic.
  
  Lady?
  Lol. First rule about the undernet: anyone with a female handle is actually a male.
  It's actually a pretty good tactic to throw off investigators.

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.
- Could be a double meaning and mean both.

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?

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

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.

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