I saw this post and I was curious what was out there.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113444325077647843

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

isn’t this prone to a

 || rm -rf /

or something similar at the end of the URL?

if you can docker exec, you have a lot of privileges already, so be sure to make sure this is not a danger

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Thank you for the warning. You are correct. It’s prune to command injection. I will validate the URL before executing it. This shoud suffice until archivebox’s rest API is available in stable.

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