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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] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is no way a DDoS on the website in affecting the crawler. Also, running a DDoS attack of this size costs a lot of money (if you rent the network, if you own it it costs money as lost sales). No one is giving AI control over a DDoS network to just fuck around.

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

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