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> Please don't post shallow dismissals https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The user you're responding to is Jason Scott of TIA.
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
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#32Who's their biggest enemy at the moment
Paywalled sites?
let me go further: the whole of the copyrighted industry
including all media conglomerates (obviously) and all scientific, literary, etc, publishing houses.
also, there's a global war, so it well may be a fog-of-war technique or like somebody else also mentioned: someone needs something to stay quite for a little bit as part of some larger operation
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#33Who's their biggest enemy at the moment
That's a tough question to answer without devolving into politics, which is off topic for Hacker News.
I think that's also the wrong question to ask. "Who's doing it?" is less interesting than "What's enabling them to succeed?"
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#34This is like an arsonist lighting an orphanage or library on fire. Why would you do something like that?
To sell your services as an arsonist. Being able to point to a big successful attack helps professional DDoSers sell their services.
more cynically, to sell fire-safety insurance
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#38Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
Maybe there is something damning on there that someone needs kept quiet for a while?
Makes sense: Large media outlets don't like their old BS stories staying accessible. I've seen it used as an accountability tool.
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Maybe it's a form of advertising certain capabilities and services.
IIUC, that's always a good theory for unexplained DDoS. Though, even if they have only profit motivations, I'm a little surprised when they don't seem to let ideology influence their selection of targets for demos. For the sake of argument (maybe not true), let's say that all techies are aware of archive.org, and consider it beneficial, probably using it themselves. Why don't they instead demo against a target that w…
One thing to keep in mind m about LockBit ransomeware was it was SaaS — errr RaaS — and there is a good chance the target was picked by an insider there, or it was at least some opportunistic hacker not really associated with those who provided the service, besides signing up as an affiliate.
LockBit was so successful partly because they didn’t have to hack anyone themselves. It was basically something advertised “Got SSH or RDP access? Let’s make a bunch of money.”
This attracted hackers who might not trust themselves to do the extortion part safely, as well as people who didn’t actually hack anything but hated their boss, wanted a payday.
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#40Is there any way to know who is responsible?
I think "follow the money" is a decent heuristic here. Why else would anyone do it?