This was likely discovered when the file refused to load (perhaps because
archive.orgwas blocked by network admins). (Yes, the firewall provider Kernun classifies it as anonymous proxy)Reminds me of that period where most of Wikipedia’s traffic were for an image of a flower because some program used it as a network test
It reminds me of a story that a web developer who found out that other sites were hosting his game by linking back to his website in an iframe and using it to make money off of ads. He made a check that if any calls are being made to the game from an iframe, replace the game with an image of goatse.
This is the best kind of justice
Had to Google what is goatse… 😅
For those that don’t know
NSFW
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Why would they do such a thing? The wayback machine is not actually that fast.
It only needs to be downloaded once. I would be more worried about security since this is a bank.
I’m very curious how they got into this situation though. It seems someone copied parts of an archived page.
They archived their own page and are using Internet Archive as a relay?
It’s more likely someone inexperienced used the internet archive to recover something they deleted by accident - I assume Barkley’s uses some form of source versioning, as banks are usually a mess but not to the point of not storing their code properly, so we can exclude someone with any real experience. The question would then be how it got to production. Again, banks are a mess but regulations around software that handles anything related to money demand that changes to production be peer reviewed.
Apparently still can’t afford a server…
Honestly the archive should rate limit the request based on the Referer, then their website would slow down and become unusable without actually breaking anything.
I also wonder, if they’re this incompetent, could someone… Break their website?
