In December, the Archive made a controversial decision. They would not delete the file. They would not release it, either. They compressed it, encrypted it with a one-time pad, and stored it on a LTO tape in a cold vault beneath an old church in San Francisco. The access key was divided among three trustees: a Muslim scholar from London, a former CIA analyst, and a child survivor of the caliphate now living in Germany.
strategy of modern extremist groups—shifting from central websites to resilient, public-facing cloud storage and archival platforms to ensure their "digital caliphate" outlasts its physical counterpart. content moderation policies dawla nasheed internet archive