The crux of this, however, comes back to the same reason we won't remove a site from the mirror. Attrition's mirror does not exist for the glorification of defacers or the ridicule of administrators. Attrition's mirror is a service for historical understanding of trends in defacements and a tool for statistical gathering. A defacement is a public incident. By defacing a web page, a system intruder makes it public knowledge that the server in question is owned.
Attrition disseminates and records public information about a web site's defacement.
Statistics One purpose of this archive is to help generate useful and interesting statistics on hacker activity. As time progresses, we will begin to track more and more statistics. These range from how many domains are defaced a day, how many each group has done, how many use obscenity, and more. If you have suggestions for statistics we can generate to help you, feel free to mail us. Many systems virtually host other domains.