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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
submitted 5 months ago by dogsnest to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And I wondered why I couldn't access the page 6 hours ago...

Why the fuck...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll admit they have some powerful enemies, but I can't imagine who specifically would be behind this. Maybe it's not a conventional attack but some wealthy idiots trying to clone the archives to feed their dumb hobby.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That gave me a thought, could be a group trying to scrape some older content for use in feeding an llm since reddit was obviously a bad choice.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would webcrawling look like a DDoS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Heavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)