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Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 231 points 3 weeks ago (29 children)

For those of you that have yet to embark on your secondary education, this is how you know you've got a champ of a professor

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Oh no, it also looks like I've spilled https://www.smartquantai.com/ over there. What a disaster, don't look at that mutual aid community for hard to find papers; it's full of communists and anarchists. Next thing you know, they will be screaming Kropotkin quotes.. Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The url also sets off so many alarm bells for me. Lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah lol the URL doesn't match the page title which doesn't match whatever wosonhj.com is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization.

It links to a fake version of libgen populated with ads

(And sadly instead of re-hosting all 550+ TB of libgen for downloads they force the downloads through libgen's servers while throwing ads on top of their fake UI)

It links to a fake version of sci hub populated with ads

(Most of these all flowing into mobang.top, another throwaway url with Chinese DNS)

I'm sure it's a helpful site, but I'd recommend people accessing it:

Don't use your actual personal email
Don't reuse a password you've used elsewhere
Access it through a VPN so your IP isn't exposed
Ensure you are running malware protection (the built in malware protection on windows or mac is likely fine) (and otherwise yes, I know you use arch, and if you use nix you're too busy modifying one of your .nix files to even read this)
Anything you download, upload to https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe

Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It used to be at that URL, and that URL redirects to it. They recently updated it and I am unsure where they are taking it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It makes sense to use throwaway urls, libgen does it all the time, I just wanted to inform people of what I found when looking at the site. Definitely not saying don't use it, just be cautious