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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20221220001752/https://github.blog/changelog/2022-12-19-access-the-audit-log-rest-api-using-scoped-tokens/

Access the Audit Log REST API using scoped tokens

December 19, 2022

Enterprise and organizations administrators can now create personal access tokens (classic) and OAuth apps with the read:audit_log scope to access the Audit Log REST API.

Why is this important? Stolen and compromised credentials are the number one cause of data breaches across the industry. To mitigate the risk of compromised credentials, GitHub recommends adhering to the principle of least privilege which promotes "giving a user account or process only those privileges which are essential to perform its intended function." The new scope will enable access to the audit log endpoints, without requiring full administrative privileges.

This feature is generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers, and will be released to GitHub Enterprise Server in version 3.8. To learn more, read our documentation on using the audit log API for your enterprise.

Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner

December 19, 2022

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud.

We have partnered with Tencent WeChat to scan for their tokens and help secure our mutual users on all public repositories and private repositories with GitHub Advanced Security. Tencent WeChat tokens allow users to verify the WeChat Official Accounts and Mini Program developers, obtain sensitive information on business applications and can be used to verify merchant identities.

GitHub will forward access tokens found in public repositories to Tencent WeChat, who will notify affected users. Tencent WeChat encourages users to delete leaked API tokens on GitHub and to create a new token on the WeChat Pay Merchant Platform or WeChat Official Accounts Platform. More information about Tencent WeChat tokens can be found here.

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Secret scanning alerts link to providers’ docs

December 16, 2022

Secret scanning alerts for third party API key detections now include a link to relevant documentation provided by the service provider, where available. These links are intended to help users better understand detections and take appropriate action.

The links will appear in the alert view for all repositories with secret scanning enabled. You can enable secret scanning on your public repositories and any private repository with GitHub Advanced Security. If you have feedback on any provided links, please write us a note in our code security discussion.

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Access the Audit Log REST API using scoped tokens

Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner

Secret scanning alerts link to providers’ docs

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