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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The way it breaks utility is in the inability to read from the service. If that goes away for long enough, the Archive will die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It would be crazy expensive to run an attack of this size for years.