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.

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.

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Your misogyny has been noted.

But the lady being referred to here is Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo of Seattle, WA, who is being falsely accused of running Anna’s Archive because her online handle is “anarchivist”. She is, in fact, a woman.

And I see no evidence to conclude that a man runs Anna’s Archive, but yours seems to be that women can’t do tech. You can fuck right off with that bullshit.

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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?

@zabadoh@ani.social
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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.

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I always assumed it was a real person,

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

Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo

@zabadoh@ani.social
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Could be a double meaning and mean both.

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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.

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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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