Comment by wartywhoa23

9 hours ago

The Ministry of Truth simply doesn't want unaccounted and uncontrolled snapshots of history. Too much hassle steering the narrative regarding any surfacing truth-now-meant-to-be-lies and vice versa into fake news territory, discrediting by association, cranking up troll farms.. Much easier to make this inconvenience disappear with the due cooperation from the controlled outlets of information.

Then they will come after our local storage, and making it prohibitively expensive is the least malign way they can come up with.

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unwise-exe  3 hours ago

Who cares about local storage? You could have just made up whatever you're claiming to have saved.

  • sedatk  3 hours ago

    Archival sites could let you download cryptographically signed copies of the archived pages. If they get removed from the archival site, the authenticity of your local copies can still be attested.

  • jMyles  40 minutes ago

    Storage media and authenticity have zero overlap in the venn diagram. Authenticity is a cryptological feature of the internet, not a topological one.

    The reason you believe that you're reading something on news.ycombinator.com right now is not the path by which the bytes were copied from one interface to the next before getting to you, but the certificate and signature that confirms you have a valid HTTPS connection.

  • wartywhoa23  3 hours ago

    True, it's next to useless as a proof of anything for wide audience...

    But what does care about local storage in this brave new gaslit world is my own sanity, for one.

Jerry2  3 hours ago

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984