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title: Removing your site from the Wayback Machine (Keybase)
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subtitle: A quick and easy guide
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author: Amolith
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description: Quick guide on removing and excluding your content from Archive.org's Wayback Machine with Keybase
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cover: /assets/pngs/archive.png
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date: 2019-06-03T12:08:00-0400
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categories:
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- Technology
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tags:
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- Archive.org
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- Privacy
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- Sysadmin
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toc: true
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---
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## Preface
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There may be a myriad of reasons you want to do this, from removing
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sensitive information to regaining a measure of control over your
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content. Whatever your purpose, below should be a quick and easy way to
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achieve it.
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## For domains you own
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The easiest way to verify you own a domain is to put a text file in an
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easily accessible location and email
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[info@archive.org](mailto:info@archive.org) asking for removal and link
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to it. Mine is at
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[removal-request.txt.](https://nixnet.services/removal-request.txt) It
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would be better if you didn't copy mine word-for-word and wrote your own
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instead though :wink:
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If that's all you intend to do, this should be sufficient and there's no
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need to read any further. If you want to exclude your *profiles* as well
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(for example, all your GitHub repos, Twitter, Mastodon, etc.) read on.
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## For domains you *don't* own
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There are a few things I used that worked in harmony to verify my other
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accounts. [Keybase](https://keybase.io/) was the most useful for this
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purpose. It is a proprietary service but I deem the level of proof it
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facilitates worth compromising for.
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The other tool I used was [GPG.](https://gnupg.org/) For the sake of
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keeping it simple, *this* guide will just deal with GPG from within
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Keybase. I ***really*** recommend actually learning to use GPG on its
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own; it's wonderful for protecting your privacy and verifying your
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identity in a multitude of situations. The next post will be on using
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GPG *outside* of Keybase for this so [stay tuned.](/posts/index.xml)
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### Generating your key
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After creating your Keybase account, click "add a PGP key", "I need a
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public key", then enter the requisite information. You should use
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whatever name is associated with the account you'll be emailing
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Archive.org from as well as that address. Wait a bit while it generates
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the key...
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### Verifying some accounts
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This is where you verify whatever accounts you want removed. Just click
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the option and go through the steps! Aside from personal websites,
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Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, etc., you can also prove accounts on a lot of
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other services (including Mastodon). More are being added every day so
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check back if there's something specific you want to address.
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Once this is done, you'll be ready to contact Archive.org about getting
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your stuff removed.
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### Signing some messages
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In the top right of Keybase, you'll see a pencil. Click it and you'll be
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taken to a page with a text box. This is where you'll type your email
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and the text file for your website proof. For the text file, copy the
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signed message and paste it into your text editor, save, and put it at
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the root of your website. For example, mine is at
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[removal-request.txt.](https://nixnet.services/removal-request.txt) It
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would be better if you didn't copy mine word for word and wrote your own
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:wink: For the email, you'll do the same thing but paste the signed message
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into your email client, whether that's Thunderbird, ProtonMail,
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Tutanota, etc. The text file only needs to contain the request for the
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(sub)domain removal. The email needs to contain the request for
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everything along with links to the text file, you Keybase account, and
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whatever you want removed.
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Before sending it, you should also go back to your profile, click your
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key, and copy everything in the text box that starts with `-----BEGIN
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PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----`. Paste that into another text file but save
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it with the `.asc` extension. For example, `key.asc`. Attach this to the
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email, send it to [info@archive.org,](mailto:info@archive.org) wait a
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couple days, and you're done!
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