Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service

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Post by intunderflow » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 11:01 AM UTC

Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service
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Post by intunderflow » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 11:03 AM UTC

*They still have a Tor Hidden Service, that's it though

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Post by tony-allan » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

intunderflow wrote: post #2

*They still have a Tor Hidden Service, that's it though

I suspect that a TOR service is easy to DDOS. Anyone know if that's true?

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Post by tony-allan » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 11:39 AM UTC

I'm very glad Kiwi Farms is gone.

But as a thought experiment, would an IPFS based distributed website survive attacks of this nature?

It could be pinned by individual users and gateways and accessed using browser plug-ins.

[1] https://ipfs.tech/

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Post by prvit » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:07 PM UTC

tony-allan wrote: post #3

intunderflow wrote: post #2

*They still have a Tor Hidden Service, that's it though

I suspect that a TOR service is easy to DDOS. Anyone know if that's true?

Yes, Tor services are particularly easy to DoS and there's pretty much nothing the DoS recipient can do about it.

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Post by 8b16380d » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:08 PM UTC

Stallman is right again…

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Post by prvit » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:11 PM UTC

tony-allan wrote: post #4

I'm very glad Kiwi Farms is gone. But as a thought experiment, would an IPFS based distributed website survive attacks of this nature? It could be pinned by individual users and gateways and accessed using browser plug-ins. [1] https://ipfs.tech/

Sure, it could. Good luck building a decent forum on IPFS though.

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Post by tsujamin » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:11 PM UTC

tony-allan wrote: post #4

I'm very glad Kiwi Farms is gone. But as a thought experiment, would an IPFS based distributed website survive attacks of this nature? It could be pinned by individual users and gateways and accessed using browser plug-ins. [1] https://ipfs.tech/

I'd be interested to know if the users of the site would be brave and willing enough to pin Kiwi Farm's content to their attributable/personally owned devices...

Surely some of the appeal or enablers for the behaviour on there is that someone else is wearing the legal risk of storing it all

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Post by Y-bar » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:12 PM UTC

8b16380d wrote: post #6

Stallman is right again…

> Hosting providers MUST be forced to provide a platform for everyone and anyone against the will of the provider. It SHALL NOT matter how many people their customers brag about driving to suicide. Nor should the hosting provider take into consideration harassment campaigns orchestrated by users of their platforms.

-- Stallman, probably?

/endsarcasm

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Post by schleck8 » Mon, Sep 05, 2022, 12:13 PM UTC

They host (or shield) a bunch of high-profile piracy sites (the largest repacker for example) and hosted Parler after it was kicked from AWS. I've never heard of anyone being suspended by DG. Great achievement, that surely wasn't easy.