The Digital Fortress Falls: Why Russia Blocked Archive.today and Wikipedia Severed Its Links

The report describes the Russian Federation’s nationwide interdiction of Archive.today and its mirrors—implemented via DNS blocking and SNI-based deep packet inspection—and notes that Roskomnadzor is attributed as the enforcing authority. It further states that Wikipedia removed Archive.today links after allegations that the archive’s code was surreptitiously enlisting visitors’ browsers to flood target sites with traffic, a behavior akin to a distributed denial-of-service vector.