Consider submission to other public archives (archive.org, archive.is)

[zmanion]

ArchiveBox supports submission to archive.org:

SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=True # set to False to disable submitting all URLs to Archive.org when archiving

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/dev/archivebox/pkgs/abx-plugin-archivedotorg/abx_plugin_archivedotorg/archive_org.py

Not sure what our current ArchiveBox configuration is, but as best I recall, ArchiveBox doesn't do a lot of management, just fires off an archive.org curl command and does some minimal error/retry checking.

For the CVE capability, consider independently submitting references to at least archive.org and archive.is (which I believe is archive.ph and maybe archive.today). Manage submissions better than ArchiveBox. For example, consider if the domain is live, the URL works, if the URL is already in the archive and how old the last capture is, use an API key, check responses, and be sane/polite about retries.

I've hacked this up for archive.org and am happy to share details, like that available?url sometimes lies and cdx/search/cdx?url is better.

I have not done this for archive.is, but others have:

https://github.com/HRDepartment/archivetoday

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/148066/how-do-i-archive-a-webpage-to-archive-today-using-wget-or-curl

[zmanion]

Why? Resilience, making use of existing popular services. And this runs smack into legal issues with archiving and removal.

Security research published, I have not tested nor seen any corroboration, but the supplier legally pressured the researcher to remove the content:

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/

archive.org had a copy (two IIRC), but those are now missing, I presume the same legal pressure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250906150322/https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/

archive.ph still has it:

https://archive.ph/HeCcf

archive.ph also faces legal pressure:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/fbi-subpoena-tries-to-unmask-mysterious-founder-of-archive-today/