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mad_asshattertoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·5 months ago

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

mad_asshattertoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·5 months ago

Internet Archive (@archive.org)

Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.

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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.
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  Would webcrawling look like a DDoS?
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    Heavy traffic is different from a DDoS, assuming the attacker is using standard DDoS techniques (refusing connection after confirmation from server)